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All Writing Is Political: A Conversation with Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid discusses his new novel, Exit West, hope in fiction as a form of resistance, the necessity of learning to accept social change, and how much America and Pakistan have come to resemble each other.

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This Week in Trumplandia

Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a…

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Syria, or, “Day in the Life”

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What to Read When Things Go Nuclear

Here are some books to read that will remind you that there is beauty out there, even if it's hard-wrought.

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This Week in Essays

Through her work with Doctors Without Borders, Caitlin L. Chandler offers us a glimpse of what life is like on the Syrian border for Guernica. For Real Life magazine, Christopher Schaberg examines the…

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Politics

The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #16: The Game Is On

Today is the day that Pr*sident Trump shut down the American borders to refugees, green card holders, and non-citizens with paid for and improved visas—if they were from certain “Muslim…

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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #13: Such Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Do you keep a dream journal? I started as a teenager, and continue on-and-off. Sometimes I can’t tell the difference between a dream and a memory. Does this happen to…

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“A Star That Peers Through Your Window”

German children’s book author Thomas Mac Pfeifer spent over a year interviewing children who had migrated to Germany from war-stricken countries such as Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan with the purpose…

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Comics

Fresh Comics #12: Rolling Blackouts

Some books take such a mammoth effort to produce that it’s hard to want to be critical of them. Rolling Blackouts is one of those books. The nearly 300 pages of delicately…

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The Rumpus Interview with Saleem Haddad

Saleem Haddad discusses his debut novel Guapa, the Orlando shootings, the importance of queer spaces, and Arab literature.

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Translating the War in Syria

At Lit Hub, Lina Mounzer discusses the Syrian women bearing witness to the war through writing, her own complicated relationship with the English language, and translation as a symbolic act:…

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Michael Helm

The Rumpus Book Club chats with Michael Helm about his new novel After James, the line between paranoia and caution, and the use of poetry as a plot device.

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