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Rumpus Original Fiction: Poor People Disappear

  • Ira Sukrungruang
  • May 26, 2021
Nothing is not right. There is no indication there has ever been a house.
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The Friends of Dorothy Have Something to Say to Kansas

  • Martin Pousson
  • February 20, 2017
As we move backward in time, we must beware of yellow brick fallacies. Also: poppy fields, flying monkeys, and entrepreneurial wizards.
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What I’ll Tell My Children: On Being ‘F***Able’ under the Regime of President-elect

  • Jenessa Abrams
  • December 7, 2016
It’s time to take responsibility for compliancy.
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • November 23, 2016
Here at The Rumpus, this essay by Liz Latty on challenging the fairy tale myth of adoption is receiving a tremendous response from readers. Malloy Owen has written a mind-opening essay…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tiny Bubbles

  • Martha Bayne
  • July 31, 2016
A bubble is a sphere of privilege, but it also provides the safety to mix up more soapy water and to blow new bubbles to protect what we hold dear.
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The Commune

  • Swan Huntley
  • June 27, 2016
Our house, we believed, was a microcosm of that country. Every month, we’d gather at the kitchen table for our house meeting, where we, like politicians, unveiled our big plans for change.
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The Rumpus Interview with Rebecca Schiff

  • Emma Winsor Wood
  • June 8, 2016
Rebecca Schiff discusses her debut collection The Bed That Moved, choosing narrators who share similarities with each other and with herself, and whether feminism and fiction-writing conflict.
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The Baffler 2.0

  • Jessica Loudis
  • April 21, 2010
Can a resuscitated left-wing publication—a print publication!—thrive in the hostile economic conditions of 2010? The editors of The Baffler are betting it can.
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