How beautiful are these book covers! In Baltimore next week? Don't miss his one-of-a-kind reading that brings together poets, prose writers, and translators from Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet countries who now make their homes across the United States.

Join us tomorrow in Baltimore! It's going to be an incredible night.

Punctured Lines@puncturedlines.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Baltimore, get ready! This one-of-a-kind reading brings together writers from Eastern Europe who now make their homes across the United States. We're coming together during #AWP26 to share our work in support of Ukraine. www.eventbrite.com/e/eastern-eu... #reading #event #BookSky

FLESH very quickly became one of my favorite books of all time, and I love this review of it. That it moves like a night train and that you will feel it in your bones is absolutely true. therumpus.net/2025/06/25/o...

On Exteriority: David Szalay’s "Flesh" - The Rumpus

After a few more one-liners, it becomes clear István is living in pandemic-era England (he vapes now, etc.) and trying to log on to a Zoom meeting with his therapist

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I'm thrilled to be working as Editorial Assistant for a collection I have loved for years, and hope you'll follow our countdown to the 40th issue of The Best American Essays! Day 0: From the Front Matter open.substack.com/pub/bestamer...

Day 0: From the Front Matter

COUNTDOWN TO PUBLICATION begins tomorrow!

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For @globeopinion.bsky.social, I wrote a piece about gym class names that I hope might add a bit of levity to your day. Massive thanks to the phenomenal Ideas editors for letting me foray into a new space. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/o...

At my gym, I can vibe, ignite, achieve, bodypump, bodyjam, and more. If only I knew what that meant. - The Boston Globe

Maybe the real workout begins with the mental gymnastics of trying to decode my gym's class names.

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Absolute joy to speak with @nglipson.bsky.social about how her brilliant essays come to life. I wanted our conversation to go on forever. Thank you @dintywmoore.bsky.social and @andreafirth.bsky.social for giving us the space to explore!

Brevity / Dinty W. Moore@dintywmoore.bsky.social · last yr.

"I wanted to write a book that spoke to the many coexisting versions of ourselves, using my life as a case study to illustrate that women are complex, multidimensional, full human beings." ~ @nglipson.bsky.social talks with @apartan.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/n...

@shubhasunder.bsky.social just won a @whitingfoundation.bsky.social award for "Optional Practical Training," and you can read my review of this exceptional novel here: therumpus.net/2025/04/01/s...

The Relentless Impressionism of Immigration: Shubha Sunder’s Optional Practical Training - The Rumpus

Sunder’s impressionistic lens also reveals that, perhaps, only in stepping back from intense initiations into new spaces can we see them clearly.

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A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and corruption in Russia and was published eight months after he died in prison, won a National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.

Aleksei Navalny Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners

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@shubhasunder.bsky.social's new novel on immigration transformed my understanding of a lifelong journey - and I'm so grateful to @jbrookewrites.bsky.social and @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social for sharing my thoughts and being the 5-star editing team they are. Review out soon!

J Brooke@jbrookewrites.bsky.social · last yr.

Deep dive #review of @shubhasunder.bsky.social ‘s new book coming soon in our pub @therumpus.net thanks to @apartan.bsky.social @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social

Thank you @cogwbur.bsky.social and @cloeax.bsky.social for making a home for this piece. Thank you @jangrarup.bsky.social for inspiring it with your underground bunker photograph exhibit. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

For Ukrainians, it's been 1,000-plus days of life underground

Americans are grappling with the kind of humiliation-by-association that Putin has inspired in countless Russians -- including me -- and it’s heartbreaking to see, writes Asya Partan.

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My fabulously talented professor Megan Marshall (a Pulitzer winner for her biography work) is coming out with a new book of essays. You can read about them here... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/b...

Book Review: ‘After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart,’ by Megan Marshall

The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

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Last year, I wrote for @bostonglobe.com about the curse of Lenin's embalmed body. In this week's breaking mausoleum news, Lenin has been advised "to remove Vladimir Lenin's body from a mausoleum in Moscow in order to seal his legacy as Moscow's leader." Ha. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/27/o...

100 years after Lenin’s death, his curse still grips Russia - The Boston Globe

The founder of the Soviet Union died in 1924, but his embalmed body remains on display in a country that doesn’t know how to let go of its past.

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An important piece by @mashagessen.bsky.social as we enter Trump's second term and approach the 3rd warversary in Ukraine. "I Spent Trump’s Inauguration in Ukraine. This Is What I Saw." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/o...

Opinion | I Spent Trump’s Inauguration in Ukraine. This Is What I Saw.

“And Panama!” a Ukrainian military analyst said. “What did calm, peaceful Panama do?”

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Deeply grateful to @therumpus.net for publishing my review. I hope everyone has a chance to read this extraordinary, laugh-out-loud funny, and devastating memoir. Part Navalny’s life story, part Russia’s, it is also a playbook on resistance that we very much need today.

The Rumpus@therumpus.net · 2y ago

“...reads at turns like a detective thriller, a horror tale, a love poem, and a bellyache-producing comedy set.” Getting the Last Laugh: Asya Partan reviews Alexei Navalny’s Patriot (Alfred A. Knopf). Read the full review at https://buff.ly/49xALxf