Weekly Geekery
Science fiction has a huge race problem, and stock solutions don’t cut it.You’re welcome: 19th century math genius gets Hamilton-ized.The electrifying history of modern fencing.Ah, Ancient Greece. Land...
View ArticleSticking Like Burrs
Our personal pasts aren’t factual records. They’re made up on the spot, synthesized from disjointed details to answer questions we have in the present.For KROnline, Natalie Mesnard and Patrick D....
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Making Sense of the World: A Conversation with Dessa
Dessa, a hip-hop artist, poet, essayist, and part of the Minneapolis-based rap collective and record label Doomtree, recently released Chime, an eleven-track album on which her signature literary style...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: RememberYou
The pills are called RememberYou, and that’s what they do—help you remember who you are. That’s what the doctor says, after Eunha calls the number that Mark’s sister, Carly, gives her, after she drives...
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Part Skeptic, Part Believer: A Conversation with Cai Emmons
Climate change gets plenty of news coverage these days, and speculative fiction has long been a place to find stories set amid harrowing, post-apocalyptic worlds destroyed by global warming. But it is...
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Doing the Work of Empathy: A Conversation with Marin Sardy
I last interviewed Marin Sardy five years ago, in the aftermath of Robin Williams’s suicide, to discuss the larger cultural discourse on mental health prompted by Williams’s death. The topic is deeply...
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Reality Is Changeable: Talking with Rachel Genn
Rachel Genn’s latest novel, What You Could Have Won, was released last month by And Other Stories. The book follows a failing psychiatrist, Henry Sinclair, who tries to rejuvenate his career by turning...
View ArticleAsking the Right Questions: Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom, one of the most anticipated novels of 2020, delivers an intimate portrayal of a Ghanaian family making its way in the contemporary American South, a story as...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Christine No
Christine No’s poetry collection, Whatever Love Means, is an explosive debut that magnifies intimacy and the eruptions that occur when bonds are broken. Her language is both daring and realized,...
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Joe at the Aquarium
I pushed him so he glided through the fish, the eels, the boxed-in worlds of blues. It was two years before he’d have his own wheelchair and four years before he died. That day, my parents and I drove...
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