Growing up, I often thought of my mother as a collector of people. She collected people the way other people…
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The first page of Hisham Matar’s latest novel is so emotionally perplexing, so masterfully crafted that I promptly screenshot and…
Around 15 years ago my friend Erik interrupted me while I was talking about my workday to say, “Stop being…
Her Baby Is a Stranger She Doesn’t Want to Know Mario Giannone Share article The Box Where Baby Slept by…
In January 2020, Bookshop.org was created as an online retail alternative to Amazon. Since then, the platform has raised more…
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…
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…
Detroit in the 1920s proved to be the Paris of the West for many—including Catherine McIntosh and Robert Sage. These…
When I heard Venita Blackburn had a novel coming out, my desire to read it was palpable, a hunger. Her…
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“When you are in the throes of illness,” Jacqueline Alnes writes in her debut The Fruit Cure: The Story of…
After my father died, my older sister and I stayed with my mother for a while. I couldn’t stop thinking…
Winter in the northeast follows a predictable pattern. The season is rushed in the beginning, with snow-frosted holiday advertising out…
Not All of His Problems Are a Performance Kaveh Akbar Share article An excerpt from Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Cyrus…
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for the short story collection “The Goodbye Process” by Mary Jones, which will be published by…