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The Rumpus Review of Rogue One
In last year’s Rumpus Review of The Force Awakens, I had the naiveté to claim that J.J. Abrams and company had tried to distance the First Order from calling to mind contemporary American politics by...
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Weekly Geekery
Ladies: we’re more likely than men to cannibalize. Diversity dilemmas and the Hollywood sci-fi industrial complex. Oedipal orcas? Male killer whales need menopausal mom to survive. Who replies to a...
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Readers Report: The Emperor’s New Clothes
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” We chose this subject in light of last Friday’s inauguration. Edited by Susan Clements....
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Wilco Schmilco (dBpm) On “Just Say Goodbye,” the chillingly resigned final track of Wilco’s tenth studio album, Schmilco, Jeff Tweedy asks, almost breathless, “Why am I in my skin again?” It’s the sort...
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FUNNY WOMEN #150: A Little More About Customer #7611594
from: Lisa <lisa@onlineoutdoorretailer.com> to: Emily Weinstein <emilyweinstein22@email.com> subject: Carabiners and Goat Hello Hi! Thanks for your order #7611594 with...
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Safety Nets: On Seeing Movies with My Children
My seven-year-old daughter broke her leg five days before Halloween last year. She fell off a balance beam in gymnastics. The moment the gymnasium filled with screams, I knew it was my girl. Rushing to...
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Finding Comfort in the Discomfort: Talking with Juan Martinez
In an often-quoted passage, the writer John Barth remarks that “heartless skill has its appeal; so does heartfelt ineptitude; but what we want is passionate virtuosity.” That phrase, passionate...
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Spotlight: The Rumpus Review of Boundless
I bought Jillian Tamaki’s Boundless. With real money. I’m almost ashamed to tell you this, as someone who hopes to make a living off what he writes and draws, but I rarely buy books new. I mean, have...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #115: Bao Phi
Minneapolis has a life of its own in Bao Phi’s Thousand Star Hotel. It appears in nearly every poem—crumbling in some places, lively in others—and its richly described infrastructure houses Phi’s...
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The Illusion of Wholeness: Sophie Collins’s Who is Mary Sue?
I came across Sophie Collins’s Who Is Mary Sue? completely by accident in a local bookshop, but its title instantly grabbed my attention. As a poet who has been writing about and following feminist pop...
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