15+ hour, 28+ min ago  (72+ words) An excerpt from LANDSCAPES by Christine Lai, recommended by Ay'eg'l Sava' "Dream big," they tell us. "The sky's the limit." We are lied to. An excerpt from FANCY MEETING YOU by Louise Marburg, recommended by Elinor Lipman The anemic green…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (69+ words) Electric Literature The Policeman Finds Me Guilty of Joy The Body Is a Courtroom Where I Am Always on Trial Take a break from the news Paige Lewis' debut novel "Canon" rejects the binaries that those in power use to…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (357+ words) I can think of few novels that have haunted me the way Ruskovich's has, and so I was thrilled to be offered an early chance to read Nightjar, her new collection of stories, and even more delighted to discover that…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (688+ words) When I was a proto-embryonic critic, in my painfully awkward junior high school years, my reading was wildly incongruous. Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine to Siddhartha to The Grapes of Wrath to cheap, used Harlequin Regency romances." I had weird…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (578+ words) Why is the act of painting one's face so charged with gendered implications? How might makeup smear the lines drawn between "feminine" and "masculine"? And what can drag culture teach all of us about the role of artifice'and art'in constructing…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1526+ words) In every speech kid, I see a version of myself that I love with frightening intensity: 14 years old, a closeted freshman at Liberty High School with long curly Weird Al Yankovic hair, thick glasses, blisteringly cheap dress shoes, and something…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (358+ words) Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of A Cow Gives Birth at Night by Pajtim Statovci, translated by David Hackston, which will be published on January 26, 2027 by Pantheon Books. You can pre-order your copy here. From the celebrated…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (130+ words) " Preety Sidhu Associate Editor, Recommended Reading This content is password-protected. To view it, please enter the password below. Marlena Williams is a writer and lawyer from Portland, Oregon. She is the author if the essay collection Night Mother: A Personal…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (929+ words) 1. Describe your publication week in a six-word story. Maggie O'Farrell: It is very hectic, but fun." 2. What book should everyone read growing up? MO: The Color Purple by Alice Walker" 3. How do you start from scratch? MO: Don't worry about…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1989+ words) " Antoine Wilson Author of Mouth to Mouth We met in a bookstore, the Strand. The late nineties. I was trying to decide between E. B. White's books, the pig or the swan or the mouse. He saw me deliberating. For my sister's…...