Hannah Michell’s Excavations begins with tragedy. A skyscraper suddenly collapses in 1990s Seoul, killing hundreds and leaving devastation in its…
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Electric Literature is excited to announce our latest initiative to support the freedom to read. Through Banned Books USA, any…
The death of her father flings Peruvian journalist writer Gabriela Wiener back to her hometown of Lima and to a…
Stars and Stripes and Racist Imperialism No History Is Immune From Ends, but the Americans Were Infinite To the times…
Encompassing a wide range of genres from historical fiction to fantasy to poetry to investigative journalism to memoir, this exciting…
Dewaine Farria belongs to the world. As a US Marine, he served in Jordan and Ukraine, and spent much of…
A Doomed Romance Is the Deadliest Tragedy SJ Sindu Share article Patriots’ Day by SJ Sindu Four days before his…
Fall, the season of sweaters, PSL, and—of course—haunted houses. Though the Victorian clapboard house will forever remain iconic, the past…
Elle Nash’s novel Deliver Me tells the story of Daisy, a Southern woman in her 30s seeking control over her life. Daisy…
Photo by Alexander Grey / UnsplashWelcome news to those of us in the “Flyover Zone”: our reading habits are healthy…
Safiya Sinclair writes in her memoir How to Say Babylon, “The perfect daughter was nothing but a vessel for the…
Imagine if the suffering chef of The Bear were physically becoming, well, a bear. Imagine if in his journey through…
Fall is a huge release season for books. Indie bookstores across the country are jam packed with new titles, and…
For a long time, I’ve described my writing as “spooky literary”—the term that seems closest to the pulse of this…
Back in the ‘80s, crack was a boogeyman come to life. It played on the minds of neighborhood kids like…
Memory is a tricky thing. For one, not everyone will have the same memory of the same event. For another,…
Love Is a Stone That Won’t Sink So Long, Oblivion Like a dollar I am depreciating all the time. Like…
When you hear the title Brooklyn Crime Novel, you might automatically think of genres involving mystery — whodunnit, noir, hardboiled,…