Electric Lit’s Best Short Story Collections of 2023
Collections by Alexandra Chang, Kelly Link, Yiyun Li, and Jamel Brinkley are among the year’s finest books of short fiction
Collections by Alexandra Chang, Kelly Link, Yiyun Li, and Jamel Brinkley are among the year’s finest books of short fiction
"Such Common Life, Part 1: Protein" from WEDNESDAY'S CHILD by Yiyun Li, recommended by Elizabeth McCracken
We deserve to exist safely in our communities, unthreatened by the hate and fear of those who seek to eradicate us
An excerpt from WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT by Peter Cameron, recommended by Margot Livesey
For every smart, brave, adventurous fictional heroine, the author must supply 1.618 boys
Writers who don’t trust themselves may wind up trapped in other people’s ideas
Late to the Party: Kōbō Abe’s ‘The Woman In the Dunes’ Reading the Japanese answer to Franz Kafka for the first time
On the book and film of Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’
A new short story by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, recommended by Electric Literature