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
What to Read When
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Themed reading recommendation lists from The Rumpus’s editorial staff and guest authors.
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
What To Read When Warding Off Art Monsters
or: When great artists turn out to be great douchebags
What to Read When You Wish You Were Heading Back-to-School
The Rumpus editors put together a list of books for Virgo season
What to Read When In Search of Eastern European Myths
because there's more than Dostoyevsky and Chekhov . . .
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.
WHAT TO READ WHEN YOU’VE MADE IT HALFWAY THROUGH 2022
Rumpus editors share forthcoming titles they are excited to read
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.
What to Read When It’s Mental Health Awareness Month
The editors put together a list of books for Mental Health Awareness Month.
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.
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