2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (131+ words) Suchitra Vijayan’s “Midnight’s Borders” follows the lives of people in the borderlands facing displacement and state-sanctioned violence Aruni Kashyap is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Georgia and the author of three books of fiction in…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (928+ words) Brahme, Feldman, and Yu corresponded with me on the significance of perspective in their novels, the spark that ignited and transformed their hypothetical questions into fiction, and the advice they would impart to anyone becoming a debut novelist. Kyla D…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (301+ words) Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of I Can Feel It All Over by Ebonya Lia, which will be published on March 16, 2027 by Amistad Books. You can pre-order your copy here. In this radiant and incisive debut novel…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (367+ words) “Blue Spark” and conversations I had with Jamie Fisher are small threads in her complex, comprehensive biography of Elliott Smith, Nobody Broke Your Heart, forthcoming this month. That book, which I read in galley form, and the occasion of its…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (216+ words) Like any child, Maribel is convinced of the singularity of her own suffering. “For the world had indeed fallen to pieces,” she says. “For I was as alone and misunderstood as anyone had ever been,” she says. “For I had…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1048+ words) Famous Men is an entertaining, rich, discomfiting novel that rejects black and white answers to complex questions in favor of subjectivity as its foundational stance. Consent is not a matter of “yes” or “no,” culpability is not an easy verdict,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (97+ words) After winning The Plimpton Prize in 2013, “Bettering Myself” was published in both The Paris Review and Recommended Reading. You can read the story in our archives for free. A short story by Ottessa Moshfegh, recommended by The Paris Review Electric…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1213+ words) Like Blackass, and like all great satires, Whyteface is a comic novel with moral purpose. Barrett ably extends and deepens the themes he began to explore in Blackass and, through this madcap vacation story, finds a way to discuss the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1188+ words) I got attached to the extra company, and the extra income. We recently welcomed a new tenant—a stranger, for the first time. But within weeks, she became a staple in our daughter’s life, bringing her fruit from the farmers…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (129+ words) Keng Xiong (he/him) is a Hmong American storyteller from Minnesota. He graduated from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and enjoys writing poetry and performance-based scripts. He is passionate about exploring and sharing Hmong and immigrant stories with a…...