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The sounds that she would expect here are entirely absent. There are no cries, no weeping. Just soothing, muffled tones.
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On Trauma, Memory, and Language: Talking with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses her new novel, SAVAGE TONGUES.
On the Futility of Defying Extinction
Always, when my father spoke to me in words I could not understand, my guilt spoke back.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #128: Dunya Mikhail
"All art is somehow a kind of witness, whether to beauty or to anything else."
Death, Satan, and Cats: A Conversation with Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine discusses his newest novel, The Angel of History, surviving the AIDS epidemic, and the role of religion in his life and writing.
TORCH: An Alien, Ineligible for Participation
That a bumbling demagogue would be able to take this institutional racism and weaponize it is, then, not really a surprise. The seeds for this hate were planted a long time ago.
There Is No Answer: Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles
As Sentilles makes clear, she is against the wars the United States is currently involved in, and war in general, but she’s critical of what that means.
Album of the Week: To Syria, With Love by Omar Souleyman
Before becoming one of the most praised electronic music producers of the last few years, Omar Souleyman was a successful wedding singer in his homeland Syria, with something like five…
What to Read When the President Decides It’s “Time to Exit Paris”
Turn off the television and pick up a book. You'll feel better for it, we promise.