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What to Read When You Want to Understand Precarity

  • David Janisch
  • November 17, 2023
American Precariat shares stories of the unseen and the unspoken and articulates the lines of our division.
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What to Read When You’ve Made it Halfway Through 2023

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  • June 23, 2023
We’ve asked Rumpus editors to share the titles forthcoming between now and the year’s end that they are most eagerly anticipating.
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From the Archives: What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Pride

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  • June 13, 2023
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Pride Month!
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What to Read When You Want to Elevate the Everyday

  • Jessica E. Johnson
  • April 14, 2023
. . . 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.
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What to Read When Celebrating Black History

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  • February 28, 2023
The Rumpus editors share a list of books to celebrate Black History Month
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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 2023 is Around the Corner

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

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  • 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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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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