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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.
What to Read When You Want to Elevate the Everyday
. . . the high domestic: not high as in refined or exclusive, but high as in the ordinary, accessible thing imagined or presented as worthy of attention and delight.
What to Read When Celebrating Black History
The Rumpus editors share a list of books to celebrate Black History Month
What to Read When: You Want to Think Kaleidoscopically About Place
A stitch that sews both self and world into being.
What to Read When: You Like to Look at Birds
I have long gravitated toward books that know where they are situated.
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 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