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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #86: Max Allan Collins

In April, the Mystery Writers of America named Max Allan Collins a Grand Master, the organization’s peer-voted lifetime achievement award. Collins has had a prolific and often eclectic career. The…

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 13): “Letter to Simic from Boulder”

"Wherever you are on earth, you are safe,” writes Richard Hugo. Really?

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Breaking the Binaries: A Conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her new novel, Book of Joan, a reimagining of the Joan of Arc story set in a terrifying future where the heroine has emerged to save a world ravaged by war, violence, and greed.

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Politics

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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Other

This Week in Short Fiction

This week’s story is one of breathtaking imagination and emotional depth, a tale of borders and visas, dreams and language, captivity and liberation. At The Offing, Sofia Samatar’s “An Account…

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The Strangely Plausible Abyss of American War

In Akkad’s dystopian scenario, the US faces a resurgent Mexico and a vast and newly powerful North African-Arabian empire.

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We Brown Women

Our bodies will not be your banners. We are not yours to use and abuse, we are not yours to dupe. We see through your words, and we see your violence.

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Rumpus Original

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Living Wound

Ancestors need a scratch, a stretch sometimes, too.

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Rumpus Original

War Narratives #8: Flashes of War by Katey Schultz

Schultz enables readers to see past their own perspectives and empathize with both the Afghan child and the American war widow.

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Rumpus Original

Womanly Arts

This is the hearth. This is the knot. This is home. The woman bent over a sewing machine, the steady hum of the motor, the needle rising and sinking.

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Rumpus Original

Sand Becoming Glass

You can call a soldier a hero or a murderer. You can call them a warrior or a monster. You can call them savior or Satan. You could call them Brother. Maybe even mother.

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Features & Reviews

This Week in Books: Civilianized: A Young Veteran’s Memoir

Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and…

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