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NEW GENRES: Domestic Fabulism or Kansas with a Difference
Jun 26 2014 - Amber Sparks
7 Magical Realism Stories from the American South
Southern writers are putting out the weirdest, coolest, and most thoughtful works of speculative fiction
Feb 26 2024 - Bradley Sides
7 Arab and Arab Diasporic Novels about Storytellers
Stories that counter-colonize the Western narrative and reclaim cultural agency
May 30 2023 - Sarah Cypher
Genderqueer Short Stories About the Ways We Mythologize Our Identities
Morgan Thomas, author of "Manywhere," on queer joy and what we inherit from our ancestors
Jan 27 2022 - Matthew Mastricova
Electric Lit’s Favorite Short Story Collections of 2021
Dantiel M. Moniz, Anthony Veasna So, and Brandon Taylor were among the 20 best of the year
Dec 15 2021 - Electric Literature
A Master Class in Disrupting Realism and Making Magic
Marie-Helene Bertino on how to honor the rules of storytelling while breaking the rules of physics
Sep 16 2021 - Marie-Helene Bertino
“The Rock Eaters” Uses Magical Realism to Explore What It Means to Be the Other
Brenda Peynado, author of the short story collection, on writing about politics and racism through the lens of fabulism
Aug 13 2021 - Deirdre Coyle
Imagining Life as an Inanimate Object
Aimee Bender’s "The Butterfly Lampshade" is a fabulist novel about mental illness
Jan 29 2021 - Melissa Lozada-Oliva
43 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2021
The year ahead is uncertain, but at least we have these books to look forward to