Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for Cynthia Marie Hoffman‘s poetry collection, Exploding Head, which will be published…
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Born and raised in Khammam, a small town in the state of Telangana, India, Nishanth Injam published The Best Possible…
Sally Wen Mao has built a powerfully intricate world in her third poetry collection, The Kingdom of Surfaces. An incisive…
You would think that with all the TV shows and books set in schools, people would have a pretty good…
In He’s Expecting (Netflix 2022), a six-episode drama, Kentaro Hiyama is a 37-year-old successful ad executive shocked to discover he’s…
Banana Republic. No, not the clothing store. The term is more insidious than cotton slacks and button downs. In the…
The Elegant Balance of a True Friendship Hyperboles Two mathematicians but they are more friends than colleagues. The older of…
In Alissa Hattman’s debut novel Sift, the world, at first, appears hostile to life, nearly uninhabitable. Skies darken with toxins…
University of Oklahoma students Sophie Miller, Alexis Davis, Lucy Law (tie), and Evan Johnson (tie) have been awarded first, second,…
In her column Untranslatable, Veronica Esposito considers why various words are so difficult to translate. Here, she looks at the…
When I started reporting The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo Garcia, back in 2016, I had a…
An Archivist for the End of the World Christine Lai Share article An excerpt from Landscapes by Christine Lai September…
For thousands of years, women have been on the fringes of history and mythology. From “The Serpent Queen” Catherine De…
Aurora Mattia’s debut novel The Fifth Wound is a fantastical journey through the formulation of one trans woman’s truth. Mattia’s…
In an era of environmental catastrophe, it’s easy to forget that we are the environment too. The world affected by…
After his wife dies in a sudden car crash, Jimmy Laird numbs his pain for a year. He stays up…
Jane Wong’s memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is a feast of a book. It’s about hunger—the hungers of…
What even is time? I had a couple conversations this past year, some of them surrounding the publication of my…