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Humans Are the Most Alien Creatures Marie-Helene Bertino Author of the novel Parakeet (FSG, June 2020) Share article An excerpt from…
For those of us who love literary fiction, we have the written word and we have the narrated audiobook. But…
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for the poetry collection […] by Fady Joudah, which will be published by Milkweed Editions…
Amy Jo Burns’ second novel, Mercury, is a heartfelt portrait of a working-class family set in an unsuspecting industrial town…
In the six years since I began writing the Unfinished Business column here at Electric Literature, I’ve explored the incomplete…
How many stories does it take to get to know a place? Lifelong residents may write confidently of their homeland,…
In America, I Am Whole Wheat Bread My America Is Bagels My America is skin. Hide. The red hair periodically…
I find the idea of starting something new thrilling. I have learned to embrace the fear that comes along with…
A confession: I very nearly quit putting this list together. Throughout the year I keep a running list, adding new…
Is it possible for a terrorist group to secretly â€Åweaponize†the most anticipated new electronic video game? And on the…
The FamilyMart on the corner of Yingchun Road and Changliu Road, right across from my middle school in Shanghai, was…
Perfection Sketches Easily for the Young Eileen Chang Share article Young at the Time by Eileen Chang When Pan Ruliang…
As the bombs continue to fall in Gaza and violence tears through the West Bank, the areas of historic Palestine…
As the bombs continue to fall in Gaza and violence tears through the West Bank, the areas of historic Palestine…
Maybe a novelist’s real medium isn’t so much words, but the idea of memory itself. Every choice we make—voice, POV,…
Since having my daughter at the height of COVID fear in May 2020, I have learned the best way to…
Celina Baljeet Basra’s debut novel, Happy, at once fulfills and tragically subverts the promise of its title. Happy Singh Soni,…