Two poems by Birch Wiley
KITTEN author Stacey Yu on emotional transference, post-grad naïveté, and the human-animal relationships that shape us
An excerpt from THE LONELY GIRL'S VEGETABLE PATCH by Genevieve Plunkett, recommended by Kimberly King Parsons
These authors turned the lives of their friends, lovers, and collaborators into literature
I thought I knew the point at which my youth would transform into something else
Three prose poems by Mike Bove
The Booker Prize-winning author on reading his way through writer's block, and why every sentence has to risk going too far
In Nyla Matuk's LEILA AND KHALED, romantic love is underscored by a longing for Palestine
“Phillip Whitney” by Anna Reeser, recommended by Willem Marx for Electric Literature
These seven books explore the rivalries, resentments, and unexpected intimacies that shape the bonds between brothers
The EL staff reviews the best things we've read lately
My girlfriend saw me entering my 20s without a care in the world; at my age she was watching her friends die
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