Electric Lit’s Best Poetry Collections of 2023
Gabrielle Bates, Sam Sax, Sally Wen Mao, and Edgar Kunz highlight a year of celebrated poetry collections
Gabrielle Bates, Sam Sax, Sally Wen Mao, and Edgar Kunz highlight a year of celebrated poetry collections
Friendship stories don't map cleanly onto the Hero's Journey—but why are we still mapping men's stories?
Celebrating the minor indulgences and self-soothing mechanisms that make the world seem... less worse
Speculative fiction that challenges capitalistic systems of oppression
The fantasy series offers a pioneering Black hero—and a model for how white people can decenter themselves
The Marches were loosely based on Louisa May Alcott's real family: suffragists, abolitionists, and passionate troublemakers
50 years after its publication, Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction classic is newly relevant
Lessons in loving the struggle from a Pulitzer-winning poet
Plagiarism, prizes, deaths, and dick soap marked the longest year in recent history