My Spite Could Fill a Museum Tell It to the Birds I am sick of not winning the National Poetry…
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[On October 7, 2023, members of the Islamist militant group Hamas, who governs the Gaza Strip, launched a surprise attack…
The moment I learned that Shilpi Suneja’s debut novel House of Caravans was about Partition, I reached out to see…
You Can’t Plan Feelings Out of a Foursome Elisa Faison Share article Group Sex by Elisa Faison Frances and Ben…
True crime is hot right now. It’s a genre seen across every media you can think of, from podcasts to…
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for Bluff by Danez Smith, which will be published by Graywolf Press on…
Modernity has always been profoundly unsettling. Living in an ever-changing world means that no one really knows how to be…
Etaf Rum’s Evil Eye is a captivating, heart wrenching novel about navigating intergenerational trauma, and finding your identity in a…
There’s a TikTok trend that haunts me lately, finding its way to my phone every chance it gets. In the…
This Android Hopes You’ll Swipe Right Requiem for the Most Famous Drag King of Our Lifetimes Despite the urban legends…
Back in high school in the 1990s, I was taught history with a capital “H,” the kind of history that…
Jami Nakamura Lin begins with a warning: “In the presence of a story—if the story is a good one—time collapses.”…
It was a stormy summer day, dead in the middle of August, with lightning sheeting the sky and a deep…
Who is responsible for maintaining family lore? In Company, Shannon Sanders introduces—and repeatedly reintroduces—readers to the Collinses, a Black family…
A Black Belt in Karate Doesn’t Make a Fair Father Salar Abdoh Share article An excerpt from A Nearby Country…
Venezuela, my home country, was once one of the richest countries in Latin America due to the discovery of oil…
The Masquerade of the Red Death is the one night every year where we gather in Brooklyn, celebrate with our…
“The world here beats faster than a hummingbird’s wings,” writes Alexandra Chang in her new collection Tomb Sweeping. Chang, the…