Justin Torres’ much-awaited follow-up to We The Animals, Blackouts is a meandering conversation between an unnamed young queer narrator and…
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I don’t remember exactly when I first heard it but it was in high school sometime in the early nineties.…
Author Elissa Bassist is obsessed with the patriarchy. She once texted me, “BENNY needs to go pee, and I need…
Betrayed by the City That Raised Me Annesha Mitha Share article The Waiting Room by Annesha Mitha I sweat through…
Most of my really potent reading memories have less to do with exact books or passages, and more to do…
On March 11, 2022, Molly McGhee shared a resignation letter on Twitter. She was quitting her job as an assistant…
Mona Simpson’s latest novel, Commitment, is a tour de force that takes place in the early 1970s and follows three…
In “A Hundred Years Ago,” the eighth episode of the second season of Max’s Sex and the City spin-off, new…
Literally Squeezed Out of the Market Skinny House The houses are getting skinnier. By the time Ant can afford to…
Before August 2017, most people were more familiar with my home of the past 30-plus years, Charlottesville, Virginia, for its…
When you hear the phrase “queer history,” how far back does your mind go? For many, there’s a sense that…
If you live in New York, you may have spotted The Nonbinarian Book Bike. It’s hard to miss—a bicycle carrying…
Electric Literature is thrilled to reveal the cover for acclaimed writer Claire Messud’s new novel, This Strange Eventful History, which…
How to Audit a Capitalist Nightmare Molly McGhee Share article An excerpt from Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee Abernathy…
My introduction to romance novels came when my high school crush handed me a book written by his mother’s friend…
Athena Dixon’s The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays opens on New Year’s Eve of 2021, with Dixon alone in…
Photo by Yousef Khanfar / www.yousefkhanfar.com. This olive tree in the Al Aqsa compound is believed to be 2,000 years old.I’m not…
When I first encountered the work of Henry Dumas, I was very nearly finished with my undergraduate degree in English.…