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 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.
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.
What to Read When Celebrating Black History
Rumpus editors share a list of books to celebrate Black History Month!
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?…
What to Read When Remembering bell hooks, Eve Babitz, and Joan Didion
Three short book lists of three great writers.
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!