The Past Is All We Have: André Aciman’s Homo Irrealis
Is it not in the warm chambers of the past, after all, that we are immortal, invincible, and alive?
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Omayra (In Other Words)
I wonder, then, what it is to die. Perhaps to die is a matter of location.
A Girl-Body Filled with Animals
There was nothing in the world I had ever needed to do quite like dance.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Gina Nutt
“I like marinating in uncertainty for as long as possible.”
A Space of Sanctuary: Mother Country by Elana Bell
The body, like a country, holds so much, and all at once.
True Detective and a Greyhound: On Imagination and Survival
It’s exhausting, I realize, to constantly convince myself that I matter.
The Rumpus Mini Interview Project: Rosanna Warren
“Any good poem has form and acts out its meanings in form.”
Straining Toward “Memory Care”: Victoria Chang’s Obit
For Chang, figurative language proves unsatisfactory when compared to the depth of her grief.