Murder has long been a man’s game in literature. Patrick Batemen, Joe Goldberg and Tom Ripley are just a few…
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When I turned eighteen, I started going to a Lincoln Heights music venue called Low End Theory a couple times…
Brando Skyhorse’s new novel My Name is Iris, is a harrowing and, at times, darkly funny exploration of one woman’s…
Electric Literature is excited to welcome Deesha Philyaw, acclaimed author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, to its board…
Since Roe v Wade was repealed in the summer of 2022, those of us who believe in bodily autonomy have…
How to Dispose of a Toxic Father-in-Law Pushed Buttons Liz put her father-in-law in the lift, pushed the button, and…
I enjoy fiction that has a vaguely menacing atmosphere. Narratives with the threat of death looming over the characters, and…
In the opening pages of David Diop’s Beyond the Door of No Return, Michel Adanson, a renowned botanist, is dying.…
In Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava (River Paw Press, 2023), Kalpna Singh-Chitnis writes an urgent tribute for Ukraine, the…
If a dystopia is a place where everyone, or at least someone, lives in abject misery and terror, then most…
No matter how hard she tries, Maddy Reynolds can’t seem to escape the darkest aspects of humanity. After leaving her…
A Swim Across the Open Waters of Mid-Life Vauhini Vara Share article The Hormone Hypothesis by Vauhini Vara I feel…
Photo © Laura MalmivaaraA deadly curse, mythical creatures, and a murder investigation: in Juhani Karila’s English-language debut, Fishing for the Little…
If ever there was a poetry collection you yearn to viscerally sink your teeth into, as if biting into a…
What I love most about the plethora of literary podcasts on air these days is that each podcast feels like…
Some might think of cozy mysteries as edgeless and old-fashioned, but that’s only the case if you want it to…
Growing up as a Javanese daughter, there was one word that was drilled deep into my head by my mother:…
The year I taught at the College of New Jersey, a freshman went missing. It was a large mystery—he had…