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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What to Read When
What to Read When: The Most Beautiful Books of 2022
Judging books by their covers.
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What to Read When 2023 is Around the Corner
Another year, another TBR pile.
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A Rumpus Prose Gift Guide
Essays, novels, collections, oh my!
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What to Read When You Want to Slip Away
A list from YZ Chin of works in translation
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A Rumpus Poetry Gift Guide
Poetry for everyone
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What to Read When You Have to Carry on During Contemporary Collapse
griev[ing] a vanishing world—a nation increasingly divided while the natural world is under siege by wildfire, tornados, and unrelenting storms
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WHAT TO READ WHEN YOU DON’T LIKE SCARY MOVIES BUT YOUR FRIENDS’ “31 DAYS OF HORROR” POSTS ARE GIVING YOU FOMO
for the queers who love Halloween and are also scaredy-cats
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What To Read When Warding Off Art Monsters
or: When great artists turn out to be great douchebags
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What to Read When You Wish You Were Heading Back-to-School
The Rumpus editors put together a list of books for Virgo season
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What to Read When In Search of Eastern European Myths
because there’s more than Dostoyevsky and Chekhov . . .
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What to Read When You’d Rather be in Australia
Featuring an “erotic lesbian crime thriller,” because we need that in our lives right now.
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WHAT TO READ WHEN YOU’VE MADE IT HALFWAY THROUGH 2022
Rumpus editors share forthcoming titles they are excited to read
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From the Archive: What to Read When You Want to See a World More F**ked up Than Ours
Reading suggestions from author Celeste Ng for these f**ked-up times: worlds more—or, okay, just differently—f**ked up than ours.
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What to Read When You Want to Look
Books that are a feast for the eyes
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What to Read When It’s Mental Health Awareness Month
The editors put together a list of books for Mental Health Awareness Month.
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What to Read When You Want to Bridge the Distance (or your friends feel far away)
. . . 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.
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What to Read When It’s the End of the World
. . . 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
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What to Read When You Want to Bend Time
The 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.
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What to Read When You Want to Be a Patch of Moss
There 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.
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What To Read When You’ve Accumulated Too Much
A reading list for spring and spring cleaning!
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What to Read When You Want to Be a Bad Girl
Ariel 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.
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What to Read When Celebrating Black History
Rumpus editors share a list of books to celebrate Black History Month!
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What to Read When Imagining the Natural World
In 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 […]
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What to Read When Remembering bell hooks, Eve Babitz, and Joan Didion
Three short book lists of three great writers.
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What to Read When 2022 Is Just Around the Corner
Books releasing in the first half of 2022 that we can’t wait to read!
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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus recommendations for books to gift to friends and family this holiday season!
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What to Read When You Want to Quit Your Job
Wendy J. Fox shares a reading list to celebrate WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate the Harlem Renaissance
Kimberly Garrett Brown shares a reading list to celebrate CORA’S KITCHEN.
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What to Read When You Want to Be Haunted
Allison Ellis shares a reading list for when you want to be haunted!
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