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