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From the Archive: The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation

I want to leave the party through the window and find my uncle standing on a piece of iron shaped into visible desperation, which must also be (how can it not?) the beginning of visible hope.

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Acclimation

Such distinguished hybridity joined us all, animal and human, in a lonely, exclusive tribe.

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Poetics of Lineage

I see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #144: Cathy Linh Che

“I think a safe space is one of deep listening and deep caring.”

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The Rumpus Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Than Nguyen discusses his story collection The Refugees, growing up in a Vietnamese community in San Jose in the 1980s, and the power of secondhand memories.

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The Rumpus Interview with Vi Khi Nao

Vi Khi Nao on her new novel Fish in Exile, why women shouldn't apologize (even when they're wrong), moving between genres, and why humor is vital in a novel full of darkness and grief.

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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Thao Nguyen’s Release

The thing I want to talk about is something I’m not in possession of anymore, but of all the things I’ve lost it’s the thing I think about the most.

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A Case, Diagnosis, and Its Findings

There was nothing open about my heart; my chest tightened, threatening to implode.

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R.I.P.: Odd Habits

I would really like to see a coming back or recreation of funeral rites. Let’s create new ones. Let’s take this matter into our own hands.

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The Conversation: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib and Paul Tran

The sitting down to write, convincing myself that my voice matters, even though there are so many telling me that it doesn’t.

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“Ginger Is Good For Taking Care of Yourself”

“It feels like cheating,” Larissa Pham says in a Gawker essay titled “In My Shopping Cart,” “to write about culture by writing about food.” But it reads like anything but…

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