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Touring Trump’s America on Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad won the National Book Award on Wednesday night. In his acceptance speech he told us, “We’re happy in here; outside is the blasted hellhole wasteland…

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Politics

A Letter to My Male Friends Who May Not Know That They Are Women

Dearest loves, As you are, I am stricken. I am devastated. I am unmade. We have all felt a terrible blow. And yet, of course, we all feel it differently,…

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Other

Weekend Rumpus Roundup

First, in Rumpus Saturday Fiction, Sherman Alexie’s shares three short stories—”Fixed Income,” “Honor Society,” and “Valediction”—that all offer his trademark whimsy and insight into the human condition. Three different teenagers…

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The Night Wash Jones Won

Eighty years ago, Wash Jones appeared as a minor character in William Faulkner’s masterpiece on American identity and self-invention, Absalom, Absalom! From a craft perspective Jones was put in for…

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United We Stand

No one knows exactly what the next four years will bring. But we are always stronger when we protest together.

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Do Not Look Away

Why are we afraid? Because in the two days since the election was called, there have been numerous accounts of harassment and violence, motivated by racism, homophobia, and sexism. These events…

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From the Editors: Election 2016

This election is critical. We are code-red. We might elect our first woman president, or we might elect a man who is at best dangerous and unqualified and at worst the end of democracy as we know it today.

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Dedicate Your No-Trump Vote: Kathryn Stripling Byer

I reached out to her, and she reached back. A hug I’ll never forget.

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The Rumpus Review of Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation

Parker set out to bring a different kind of “slavery movie” to audiences. And it is different.

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Color at the Mercy of the Light

What if I said: while people still believe they are white in America, that delusion, and the dream upon which it is founded, needs to be seriously examined.

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Dedicate Your No-Trump Vote: Morris Collins

Trump is on the ballot; we don’t need weapons to repudiate him, but the Blackshirts are marching in our streets.

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Arm’s Length

With a deep understanding of colonizing narratives, Emma Bracy at Hazlitt assembles historical and personal snapshots to form a record of the ongoing dehumanizations that have led to this continuing…

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