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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.…
Hannah Michell’s Excavations begins with tragedy. A skyscraper suddenly collapses in 1990s Seoul, killing hundreds and leaving devastation in its…
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…