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

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.

Reverse gentrification of the imagination: A Conversation with Cleyvis Natera

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

If the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.

Rumpus Original Fiction: New Build

“What do we do about the new build?” I ask. “Do we finish it? Sell it? Finish it, then sell it?”

Child as Mother to the Woman: Catherine Gammon’s China Blue

In this book we are taken by all three: language, plot, character.

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Cherry Blossom Girl

Her name was Ing Hua. Literal translation: Cherry Blossom.

Both of These Things Are True: Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger

The frame expands. The structure collapses. The pieces are still speaking.

A Thousand Interlinked Details: Maybe the People Would Be the Times by Luc Sante

With so much to hear in every moment, for Sante, the page is a score, the world a song.

Rumpus Exclusive: “Dear G.B.”

There are many ways to be ripped to shreds.

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My Boyfriend, His Lover, and Me

There is nothing I want more than a happy ending.

Rumpus Original Fiction: Overlook

To be a woman in this world is to be adopted by other women.

Loving Something That May Destroy Us: A Conversation with Angie Cruz

Angie Cruz discusses her newest novel, DOMINICANA.

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