What to Read When: You Like to Look at Birds
I have long gravitated toward books that know where they are situated.
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...moreJudging books by their covers.
...moreAnother year, another TBR pile.
...moreEssays, novels, collections, oh my!
...moreA list from YZ Chin of works in translation
...morePoetry for everyone
...moregriev[ing] a vanishing world—a nation increasingly divided while the natural world is under siege by wildfire, tornados, and unrelenting storms
...morefor the queers who love Halloween and are also scaredy-cats
...moreor: When great artists turn out to be great douchebags
...moreThe Rumpus editors put together a list of books for Virgo season
...morebecause there’s more than Dostoyevsky and Chekhov . . .
...moreFeaturing an “erotic lesbian crime thriller,” because we need that in our lives right now.
...moreRumpus editors share forthcoming titles they are excited to read
...moreReading suggestions from author Celeste Ng for these f**ked-up times: worlds more—or, okay, just differently—f**ked up than ours.
...moreBooks that are a feast for the eyes
...moreThe editors put together a list of books for Mental Health Awareness Month.
...more. . . the sustaining rhythms of call and response, the power of mutual attention and direct address, of slowing down enough to listen, of connection as a means of searching, solace, and subversion.
...more. . . a list of books that I feel are worth reaching for in times like ours—some because they are apocalyptic and heavy in subject or tone, others because they are satirical, and others because of how they show parts of the world that make it worth staying in or show a world so foreign to ours that it helps medicate against some of the tunnel vision of our times
...moreThe works . . . interrogate time in text through myriad forms, playing with and revealing its machinations all through inventive means. Like the waves and fragments of memory, many of them swerve outside the lines of stiff categorization.
...moreThere is pleasure in being seen and there is pleasure in disappearing. Wade in to the swamp, pull out a book, wipe off the slime and sit on the edge to become invisible.
...moreA reading list for spring and spring cleaning!
...moreAriel Delgado Dixon, author of DON’T SAY WE DIDN’T WARN YOU, shares a reading list for when you want to be a Bad Girl.
...moreRumpus editors share a list of books to celebrate Black History Month!
...moreIn one of Jane Goodall’s early books, there’s a photo of two chimpanzees sitting on a height watching the sun set. Are they enjoying the colors the way we do? Scientists warn us not to anthropomorphize because it’s a kind of arrogance to assume we know what another species thinks and feels. Fortunately, we can […]
...moreThree short book lists of three great writers.
...moreBooks releasing in the first half of 2022 that we can’t wait to read!
...moreRumpus recommendations for books to gift to friends and family this holiday season!
...moreWendy J. Fox shares a reading list to celebrate WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
...moreKimberly Garrett Brown shares a reading list to celebrate CORA’S KITCHEN.
...moreAllison Ellis shares a reading list for when you want to be haunted!
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