18+ hour, 52+ min ago  (904+ words) Over Zoom in January, Han and I discussed her folkloric inspirations, learning about the legacy of comfort women, and the subversive possibilities of magical realism." Morgan Ome: I was really moved by the letter of introduction you include in the…...

18+ hour, 40+ min ago  (116+ words) The story was a blueprint to struggle with the monsters of everyday life. With the finale, the Duffers" coming-of-age narrative becomes about manufacturing absorption into an idea of adulthood. We need more people who are not done imagining better worlds…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (92+ words) Sunil Khilnani on breathing new life into a nation's'icons. Asfiyah Qadri is a writer based in Mumbai, India. Her work has appeared in Tweak India, Vogue India, and Brown History and explores themes of memory, identity, and nostalgia. Check out…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (166+ words) April 26 is Independent Bookstore Day, and to celebrate, Electric Lit is once again sharing a round-up of some of our favorite independent bookstores, including a few that are new to the literary landscape. In a time when it seems as…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1096+ words) Eisenberg's newest story collection, Fat Swim, carries forth this ethos across 10 luminous, visceral stories. Within its pages, the body acts as a setting where desire, hunger, and loss can transform." I was honored to get to speak with Eisenberg about…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (475+ words) Patrick and I spent a few weeks exchanging emails about detective stories, metafictional doubling, lessons drawn from Thomas Bernhard, and more. Evander James Reyes: This novel leans into the detective/noir genre, but Dan Moran is'there's no other way to…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (925+ words) A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity." Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds Grief cracked me open, rewired my brain, transformed me. Now, I'm filled with questions. To townies…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago  (91+ words) Abbie Kiefer is the author of Certain Shelter (June Road Press, 2024). Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, The Common, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and other places. She is a poetry editor for The Adroit Journal. Find…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago  (156+ words) The following seven novels are set in these twilight places spread across the length and breadth of the country. Whether it's the Himalayas looming in the background or the sea on the edge of the town, a place in the…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago  (125+ words) The following seven stories feature girls who use their cognitive abilities to challenge social norms and imagine their own destinies. They don't always succeed in the ways they hope'and, in one case, girl power threatens to destroy all of humanity,…...