Black Kids in Space: Afrofuturism and Mainstream Comedy
We have to lead with our imagination, not with preconceived limitations.
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Posts Tagged: Trump
Does It Matter Why
I refuse to play the part, but I play the part.
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The Right to Lawfully Kill
I say the world is on fire. I say I’m seeing things.
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The Discourse of Undocumentedness: Talking with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio discusses her first book, THE UNDOCUMENTED AMERICANS.
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Re-Contextualizing Dolly Parton in Her Full Glory: Talking with Sarah Smarsh
Sarah Smarsh discusses her new book, SHE COME BY IT NATURAL.
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Racism Is a Reboot: Binging Battlestar Galactica at the End of a World
It was a new world; it was the same world.
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From the Editors: Election 2020
Rumpus editors share their thoughts, fears, and concerns around the impending election.
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Survival Soup
You could say that I have trained for this pandemic all my life.
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Reclaiming History from the Bigots: Jill Lepore’s This America
History itself is not so conveniently tidy, and neither is this book.
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Intimate Characters: Talking with Laura Bogart
Laura Bogart discusses her debut novel, DON’T YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.
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Beyond Anger and Sorrow: On Poetry, Pleasure, Politics, and Offense
A poetry of coalition building: how would that sound?
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Zones of Paradox: A Conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt
Billy-Ray Belcourt discusses his new book, A HISTORY OF MY BRIEF BODY.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #225: Debra Jo Immergut
“I found that the tap seemed to open when I accessed deep emotion and memory.”
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Heather McHugh
Heather McHugh discusses her new poetry collection, MUDDY MATTERHORN.
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Moments of Reawakening: Talking with Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong discusses MINOR FEELINGS: AN ASIAN AMERICAN RECKONING.
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That Little Bit of Magic: A Conversation with Ramiza Shamoun Koya
Ramiza Shamoun Koya discusses her debut novel, THE ROYAL ABDULS.
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Finding Hope in Resistance: Talking with Amy Roost
Co-editor Amy Roost discusses the anthology FURY: WOMEN’S LIVED EXPERIENCES DURING THE TRUMP ERA.
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Inevitable Uncertainties: A Conversation with Joyce Hinnefeld
Joyce Hinnefeld discusses her new story collection, THE BEAUTY OF THEIR YOUTH.
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The Man in the Empty Suit: Talking with Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel discusses her new novel, THE GLASS HOTEL.
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Fraught Woods: Chelsea Rathburn’s Still Life with Mother and Knife
These are the woods through which we walk from an early age.
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Turning Purple: The Year of the Defector
I needed love big enough to make my own hunger seem small.
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A Political Pregnancy
Are my choices in this culture so firmly dictated by my ability to give birth?
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Paying Attention: Elizabeth Jacobson’s Not Into the Blossoms and Not Into the Air
Looking can be a way to honor, a way to pay our respects.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O’Neal
Co-editors Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O’Neal discuss their new anthology, EMPTY THE PEWS.
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A Gripping, Limited Call to Arms: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments
There are so many happy endings that dystopia and utopia become almost indistinguishable by the novel’s end.
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ENOUGH: Crime and Composure
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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