Curating a New Literary Canon
Who (and what) deserves to be in America’s first museum dedicated to writers?
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Will the OED Canonize New Trump Words?
Jan 30 2017 - Dani Spencer
The Literary Canon of Carlos Danger Characters
Jul 24 2013 - Benjamin Samuel
When Reality is More Terrifying Than Cursed Bunnies
Bora Chung uses the fantastic to examine the absurdity of misogyny and society’s injustices in her short story collection
Dec 28 2022 - Jaeyeon Yoo
Electric Lit’s Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022
Books by Melissa Febos, CJ Hauser, and Tajja Isen rank among our top picks in an outstanding year for nonfiction
Dec 22 2022 - Electric Literature
10 New Poetry Collections by Latinx and Caribbean Writers
Poems that celebrate diasporic identity and rage against oppression
Dec 16 2022 - Angela María Spring
A Hotshot South Asian Professor is Outed as White, Cue the Twitter Rampage
Mithu Sanyal, author of "Identitti," on using cultural appropriation to tell the story of being mixed race in Germany
Dec 1 2022 - Jaeyeon Yoo
A Bottle Girl More Flush Than Your Hedge Fund
"Bottle Girl" from Stories No One Hopes Are About Them by AJ Bermudez, recommended by Anthony Marra
Nov 16 2022 - AJ Bermudez
Why Does Society Insist that Women Forgive Their Male Abusers?
Betsy Cornwell on writing her Jane Eyre-inspired revenge narrative "Reader, I Murdered Him" in the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings
Nov 10 2022 - Elyse Martin
Does Ovid Still Matter Today?
Two thousand years later, "Metamorphoses" holds up a kaleidoscopic lens to help us understand the modern world
