Black Women Novelists You Should Be Reading
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Charlie Jane Anders Recommends 5 Books That Aren’t By Men
The author of “The City in the Middle of the Night” is here to help you read more women
Mar 14 2019 - Electric Literature
Chigozie Obioma Wants to Write a “Paradise Lost” for the Igbo People
“An Orchestra of Minorities” draws on the author’s experience of immigrating from Nigeria to Northern Cyprus
Jan 8 2019 - Raksha Vasudevan
A Changeling in My Own Skin
How stories about children swapped from the fairy realm helped me navigate being transgender
Dec 27 2018 - KJM Stewart
Dissertations Never Die
“The Archivist” by Mukhtar Magauin, a short story translated from Kazakh about the horrors of academic obsession
Dec 26 2018 - Mukhtar Magauin
Is Iceland the Most Literary Country in the World?
Novelist and Björk collaborator Sjón on Icelandic literary history that spans millennia
Nov 28 2018 - Adam Vitcavage
This Hawaiian Storytelling Chant Is Great Literature Without the Written Word
The oli connects me to my childhood, and to the history of indigenous Hawaii
Nov 16 2018 - Wailana Kalama
‘Jaws’ is a Film Full of Queer Intimacy You Never Noticed
How three men on a boat helped me come to terms with my sexuality
Aug 9 2018 - Jen Corrigan
7 Crime Novels Written by Irish Women
Olivia Kiernan, author of ‘Too Close To Breathe,’ on Irish women writing ‘emerald noir’
Apr 17 2018 - Electric Literature
The New Voices of South Asian Young Adult Literature
Five authors discuss writing about South Asian cultural identity without getting pigeonholed
