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What To Read When Warding Off Art Monsters

  • Dmitry Samarov
  • September 23, 2022
or: When great artists turn out to be great douchebags
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What to Read When You Wish You Were Heading Back-to-School

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  • August 26, 2022
The Rumpus editors put together a list of books for Virgo season
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What to Read When In Search of Eastern European Myths

  • Katya Kazbek
  • July 22, 2022
because there's more than Dostoyevsky and Chekhov . . .
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What to Read When You’d Rather be in Australia

  • Paige Clark
  • July 8, 2022
Featuring an "erotic lesbian crime thriller," because we need that in our lives right now.
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From the Archive: What to Read When You Want to See a World More F**ked up Than Ours

  • Celeste Ng
  • June 24, 2022
Reading suggestions from author Celeste Ng for these f**ked-up times: worlds more—or, okay, just differently—f**ked up than ours.
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What to Read When You Want to Look

  • Lars Horn
  • June 10, 2022
Books that are a feast for the eyes
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What to Read When It’s Mental Health Awareness Month

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  • May 27, 2022
The editors put together a list of books for Mental Health Awareness Month.
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What to Read When You Want to Bridge the Distance (or your friends feel far away)

  • Julie Carr & Lisa Olstein
  • May 13, 2022
. . . 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.
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What to Read When You Want to Bend Time

  • Kristin Keane
  • April 8, 2022
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.
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What to Read When You Want to Be a Patch of Moss

  • Kate Schneider
  • March 25, 2022
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.
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What To Read When You’ve Accumulated Too Much

  • Vanessa Chakour
  • March 11, 2022
A reading list for spring and spring cleaning!
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What to Read When You Want to Be a Bad Girl

  • Ariel Delgado Dixon
  • February 25, 2022
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.
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