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7 Subversive Novels About the Challenges of Life in the United Kingdom
Kaliane Bradley recommends books that grapple with the chimera that is the experienced and imagined Britain
How Clara Schumann Got Her Groove Back
“River, Love,” flash fiction by CB Anderson
“Early Sobrieties” is Not an Addiction Novel
When he quit drinking, Michael Deagler was disappointed to find a lack of novels about recovery, so he wrote one
8 Books Inspired by Asian Mythology
From the pontianak of Malay lore to the Chinese fox spirit, these stories draw from folktales as old as time
A Trans Indigenous Athlete Discusses the Significance of Playing Sports on Stolen Land
Ellen van Neerven's "Personal Score" is a kaleidoscopic essay collection that explores the intersections between soccer, colonization, gender, race, and environmental crises
7 Heart-Wrenching Chinese Family Sagas
These generation-spanning sagas examine the ways our ancestral history haunts us
The End of the World Feels Like Nothing
“A Brief, Inevitable Exchange” by Billy Chew, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
9 Novels About Women Living Alone
Amy Key recommends books from across the world about solitude and its pleasures, desires and conflicts
For Too Many Mothers, Anxiety Is a Constant State of Mind
Nella Larsen’s “Passing” asks us to sit with the anxieties of motherhood
K-Ming Chang Invites Us to Remake the Rules of the World
The author talked about her mythic triptych, rethinking the novel form as a quilt, writing about climate justice, and queer futurity
7 Novels About Women Chasing Love Abroad
Characters experiencing geographical and emotional displacement who redefine their relationships, and themselves, on new grounds
I Promise to Find You in the Afterlife
I tell Mom that if I die first, I will wait for her. My mother tells me she will do the same.