Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for the essay collection We’re Alone by Edwidge Danticat, which will be published by Graywolf Press on…
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I’m going to admit something to all y’all: the best thing that has ever happened to me—becoming a mother—is also…
“The Sunshine Cure†by Natasha Varner I knew where I was going but not how to get there, so I…
Cultural alienation is the feeling of being disconnected or estranged from one’s own culture or the culture in which one…
How to Pray in Female Femininity as Wish-Fulfillment Sara teach me how to girl my fingers pale against your stomach…
1998. Lido Cineplex. Cold air, soft seats, the smell of popcorn. My friend Alice and I are both 17 years…
Of all the lies contemporary society runs on, the fiction of the meritocracy may be the most insidious and inescapable.…
In Saltburn, the backdrops are as mesmerizing and as essential to the plot as the delicate portrayal of the central relationship…
His Drunk Excuses Only Last the Night Megan Nolan Share article An excerpt from Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan…
Every five weeks or so, I look over at her and whine, “I think I wanna go on T.†Usually,…
In the U.S., immigrant and citizen migrant farm laborers work behind the scenes every day to ensure the planting, harvest,…
Be a Woman, Be Yourself, Be Miserable B Back at his place, he showed me pictures of his ex-girlfriend, and…
I was a reader in a family of runners. With pre-teen grumbles, I reluctantly participated in summer track leagues, always…
Across her three books, Donna Hemans’ characters range from Jamaica to America and back again, often in the same story;…
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for the novel The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, which will be published by…
Kiley Reid’s sophomore novel, Come and Get It, centers around the fictional Belgrade dormitory at the University of Arkansas. Millie…
“The Great Blue†by Kim Drew Wright I’m gliding on my back atop a paddleboard, up the silent creek that…
Love a good adventure story-one with sweet old dogs and flawed, yet lovable humans? Hate the idea of factory farming…