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What to Read When

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Themed reading recommendation lists from The Rumpus’s editorial staff and guest authors.

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What to Read When: You Want to Think Kaleidoscopically About Place

  • Erica Berry
  • February 10, 2023
A stitch that sews both self and world into being.
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What to Read When: You Like to Look at Birds

  • Priyanka Kumar
  • January 27, 2023
I have long gravitated toward books that know where they are situated.
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What to Read When: The Most Beautiful Books of 2022

  • The Rumpus
  • December 30, 2022
Judging books by their covers.
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What to Read When 2023 is Around the Corner

  • The Rumpus
  • December 23, 2022
Another year, another TBR pile.
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A Rumpus Prose Gift Guide

  • The Rumpus
  • December 16, 2022
Essays, novels, collections, oh my!
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What to Read When You Want to Slip Away

  • YZ Chin
  • December 9, 2022
A list from YZ Chin of works in translation
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A Rumpus Poetry Gift Guide

  • The Rumpus
  • December 8, 2022
Poetry for everyone
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What to Read When You Have to Carry on During Contemporary Collapse

  • Sarah Fawn Montgomery
  • November 11, 2022
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

  • Joe Vallese
  • October 28, 2022
for the queers who love Halloween and are also scaredy-cats
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What To Read When Warding Off Art Monsters

  • Dmitry Samarov
  • September 23, 2022
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
  • August 26, 2022
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

  • Katya Kazbek
  • July 22, 2022
because there's more than Dostoyevsky and Chekhov . . .
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