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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • December 2, 2020
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • September 25, 2019
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • August 14, 2019
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • August 16, 2017
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • May 17, 2017
Noriko Nakada writes with mesmerizing beauty on outrunning her darkness for Catapult. In the latest TORCH installment at The Rumpus, Nadia Owusu traces the inherited trauma in her family’s history.
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • November 23, 2016
Here at The Rumpus, this essay by Liz Latty on challenging the fairy tale myth of adoption is receiving a tremendous response from readers. Malloy Owen has written a mind-opening essay…
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A Terrible Question with No Satisfactory Answer

  • Kyle Williams
  • October 17, 2016
For better or worse, poetry is now the only thing he likes to do. Even with the crying and the hopeless odds. Over at The Point, O.T. Marod writes about…
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Personal Advice

  • Kirstin Allio
  • October 6, 2016
Writing for The Point, Megan Marz explores the new “essayistic style” of advice columns and advice/fiction/memoir hybrids from writers such as Cary Tennis, Cheryl Strayed, Kristen Dombek, Heather Havrilesky, and…
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What Was Once Breathing

  • Kyle Williams
  • April 4, 2016
Iraqis are generalized as victims, refugees, or, in the worst case, corpses. Betty Rosen, writing for The Point, dives into Iraqi fiction and its relationship with corpses as a way…
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Intellectual Sadism

  • Kyle Williams
  • December 14, 2015
Lisa Ruddick, at The Point, gives a state of the union address on critical theory, arguing that current trends are leading us down a dangerous, anti-empathetic, anti-individualistic road towards “cool criticism”:…
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“Porn as a Way of Life”

  • Sam Riley
  • August 17, 2011
John Lingan wrote an essay, “Salvation for Civilians: Porn as a Way of Life,” for The Point. He discusses the contemporary debate surrounding porn—which should not be confused with the…
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