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

8 Books that Explore the Power Dynamics of Love Triangles

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright recommends stories about the shifting allegiances and power dynamics of a threesome

Vacation Is No Escape From Her Sorry Husband

"Beyond Carthage" from THE END OF THE WORLD IS A CUL DE SAC by Louise Kennedy, recommended by Caoilinn Hughes

A Woman Escapes Her Marriage by Turning into a Forest

Maru Ayase’s novel "The Forest Brims Over" explores the gendered exploitation of being an artist's muse

When the Museum of Memory Becomes a Haunted House

Jiordan Castle's memoir-in-verse, "Disappearing Act," travels back in time to adolescence to the arrest that altered her family forever

7 Heart-Pounding Heist Novels

Lee Matthew Goldberg recommends crime stories that subvert the expectations of the genre

Which Looks Better, Hardcovers or Paperbacks?

Sigrid Nunez Captures the Vulnerability of the Early Days of the Pandemic

In "The Vulnerables," a parrot without its owners, a trouble teen, and an older writer weather lockdown together

This American Dream Tastes Like Government Cheese

Two poems by Christopher Ankney

I’m Obsessed with the Woman I Hate

Sheena Patel, author of "I'm a Fan" on how Instagram is just like high school, and pushing the limits of what’s acceptable for Brown women

7 Dark and Unsettling Books by Korean Women Writers

Chin-Sun Lee recommends subversive works of fiction about women fighting against the patriarchy

The Craft of Turning Video Games into Literary Essays

J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria Machado discuss how their anthology "Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games" came together