Love under Capitalism: Sally Rooney’s Normal People
[I]n Normal People love acts as a school.
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Posts Tagged: Politics
Turning Purple: The Borderland
What we have most in common is that we don’t know the truth.
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A Fierce Compassion: Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism
WOMEN OF RESISTANCE recognizes this reality with fierce compassion, and a lot of really fine poetry.
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Welcome to South Bend: How to Get Out of Jury Duty
Oh god, do I have to publicly admit I watch The Bachelor?
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You Are Your Own Director: A Conversation with Karen Finley
Karen Finley discusses her most recent book, GRABBING PUSSY.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #183: Ryan Chapman
“[Y]ou really want to engage a reader, and not abuse their time.”
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On Crossing Over
I wish I knew how to say: You all deserved so much more.
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ENOUGH: The Quartering Act
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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What We Inherit: Talking with Chanelle Benz
Chanelle Benz discusses her debut novel, THE GONE DEAD.
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ENOUGH: He Feels like Gravel under My Skin
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: A Before Without an After
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: Rape of a Goddess
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Climate Fiction and the Great American Desert
Poison now snakes into what’s left of the water.
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ENOUGH: I Think I Wanted It
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: Tipping Toward Disaster
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Luxury of Choice: Talking with Joanne Ramos
Joanne Ramos discusses her debut novel, THE FARM.
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ENOUGH: Beneath the Towering Pines
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Thread: The Stories We’ve Been Told
It’s just their story, and we don’t have to believe a word of it.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #175: Mira Jacob
“I wanted it to feel like it was done with urgency because it was.”
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Until We Rise Again
Where do I get what I need when I have nothing left?
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A Strange Liminal Space: George Abraham’s The Specimen’s Apology
Each formal experiment is a temporary hole into a new world that opens, then collapses, behind the reader.
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ENOUGH: A Fraying, Taut Rope
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #170: Richard Blanco
“I guess you could say that engineering paved the road to poetry for me, pardon the pun.”
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Nobody Is Above the Law: Rally to Release the Mueller Report, Today, 5 p.m., Everywhere
This is not the first such protest, and it won’t be the last.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky discusses his new collection, DEAF REPUBLIC.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Caligulan” by Ernest Hilbert
Now we are untethered, which is disquieting.
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Borders and Boundaries: Talking with Irina Reyn
Irina Reyn discusses her new novel, MOTHER COUNTRY.
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Both Hard and Soft: Talking with Lilliam Rivera
Lilliam Rivera discusses her new novel, DEALING IN DREAMS.
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ENOUGH: Original Fiction: Tom’s Photos
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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