“Give My Love to the Savages” is Satire About Black Masculinity
Chris Stuck's short story collection blends absurdism with realism to tackle identity, racism, and being adrift in the world
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“Friday Black” Is a Brutal, Brilliant Satire of American Racism and Capitalism
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah talks to Mychal Denzel Smith about how working in retail inspired his book
Nov 29 2019 - Mychal Denzel Smith
Surveillance, Satire and the Female Body
Jul 3 2017 - Anne Valente
Salman Rushdie: “I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire”
Jan 7 2015 - Lincoln Michel
7 City Novels in Which Real Estate and Urban Planning Are the Heroes and Villains
Stories about individuals facing change as they are torn between past and future, tradition and modernization
Jan 19 2023 - Oindrila Mukherjee
Electric Lit’s Favorite Novels of 2022
Novels by Alyssa Songsiridej, Jessamine Chan, and Elif Batuman stand out among the year’s best
Dec 23 2022 - Electric Literature
A Man on the Run Escapes His Life, but Not His Identity
Jonathan Dee explores the radicalization of white male anger in the novel "Sugar Street"
Dec 12 2022 - Alexander Sammartino
Is It Appropriation or Appreciation When a White Man Self-Identifies as Black?
Chinelo Okparanta skewers performative allyship and white liberalism in her novel "Harry Sylvester Bird"
Nov 14 2022 - Pritika Pradhan
7 Books About the Pharmaco-Industrial Complex
Anne K. Yoder, author of "The Enhancers," recommends literature about drugs, both the legal and the illicit kind
Nov 11 2022 - Anne K. Yoder
9 Books That Take Aim at the Myth of the American Hero
Brian O'Hare's "Surrender" confronts American masculinity in stories that refuse to salute outdated or unexamined belief systems
