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A Dreamscape of Longing: Two Big Differences by Ian Ross Singleton

Zina’s observations of her time in Detroit crystallize both a feeling of otherness and a wry critique of the young American activists who celebrated socialist ideas without fully appreciating the legacy of Soviet rule in Ukraine.

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What Russian Grammar Taught Me about Death

I wanted to feel in control of something, but I didn’t know how to say that.

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Tracing the Wolf

To brand myself with something I feared and sought to subdue seemed like a reclamation.

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My Kyiv

It’s funny what ends up feeling like home.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #202: Michelle Steinbeck

“I wanted every reader to see her or his own story.”

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #192: Lara Vapnyar

“This novel is my most intimate and biographical.”

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Outside the Flow of Culture: A Conversation with Katya Apekina

Katya Apekina discusses her debut novel, THE DEEPER THE WATER THE UGLIER THE FISH.

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Wisdom Is a Double-Edged Sword: Talking with Jay Baron Nicorvo

Jay Baron Nicorvo discusses his debut novel, The Standard Grand, how easy it is for civilians to forget about soldiers and veterans, and his longstanding love of animals.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Raising A Feminist Son

I think about the birth of Mosley, and all of the dreams I already have for him at the ripe age of one. I know how I want him to see me—strong, smart, capable of anything and everything. This is how I want him to see all women, but me especially.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tinfoil Astronaut

Every time I leap there is a chance I will fall, and every time I fall there is a chance I will finally crack my head open like a Faberge egg and luminous black spiders will crawl out to mark the outline of my body with blinking stars and black thread.

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No Context, No Clue

An ad campaign by Penguin Random House in the UK meant to intrigue readers into purchasing classic books has instead sparked controversy for being anti-Russian. The ad features an unattributed line from the…

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Preserving Dostoevsky’s Prose

What’s one English word to sarcastically communicate Russian cosmopolitan refinement? How would you translate a page-long sentence from Tolstoy, or “the cacophonous competing voices of Dostoevsky”? Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard…

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