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From the Archive: The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation

  • Ocean Vuong
  • December 20, 2022
I want to leave the party through the window and find my uncle standing on a piece of iron shaped into visible desperation, which must also be (how can it not?) the beginning of visible hope.
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Reverse gentrification of the imagination: A Conversation with Cleyvis Natera

  • Stephanie Jimenez
  • May 16, 2022
When I’m reading books that work within fantastic traditions, I find they’re able to hold more truths simultaneously and give me, as a reader, room to contemplate social justice and political issues and come to my own understanding of what’s what.
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Lamentation for Songbirds

  • Lindsey Trout Hughes
  • September 30, 2021
If the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: New Build

  • Jillian Grant
  • September 15, 2021
“What do we do about the new build?” I ask. “Do we finish it? Sell it? Finish it, then sell it?”
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Child as Mother to the Woman: Catherine Gammon’s China Blue

  • Geri Lipschultz
  • July 21, 2021
In this book we are taken by all three: language, plot, character.
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Cherry Blossom Girl

  • Julie Chang
  • June 28, 2021
Her name was Ing Hua. Literal translation: Cherry Blossom.
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Both of These Things Are True: Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger

  • Claire Rudy Foster
  • June 2, 2021
The frame expands. The structure collapses. The pieces are still speaking.
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A Thousand Interlinked Details: Maybe the People Would Be the Times by Luc Sante

  • Jonathan Leal
  • March 10, 2021
With so much to hear in every moment, for Sante, the page is a score, the world a song.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Dear G.B.”

  • Jessica Lind Peterson
  • January 11, 2021
There are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
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My Boyfriend, His Lover, and Me

  • Edgar Gomez
  • December 1, 2020
There is nothing I want more than a happy ending.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Overlook

  • Ashley Lopez
  • November 25, 2020
To be a woman in this world is to be adopted by other women.
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Loving Something That May Destroy Us: A Conversation with Angie Cruz

  • Quiara Alegría Hudes
  • October 26, 2020
Angie Cruz discusses her newest novel, DOMINICANA.
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