Reading Lists
8 Dark Academia Novels Set in Art School
What happens when ambition and talent go awry?
May 27 - Laura Leffler
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Our Favorite Short Stories, Flash Fiction, and Poetry to Read for Halloween
Tricks, treats, and haunting tales all available for free from the EL archives
Oct 30 - Aybike Ahmedi
Reading Lists
8 Novels About Spending Half Your Life at Work
These authors write in obsessive, sometimes absurdist detail about the daily grind of grocery store clerks, temp employees, professors, and future space travelers
Oct 30 - Devon Halliday
Reading Lists
The Power of Touch in High Art
Does the very idea that a painting or sculpture has come into direct contact with the public, the viewer’s flesh, make it worth less money?
Oct 29 - DS Waldman
Personal Narrative
The Afterlife Is Having a Flea Market
Three poems by Holly Hunt
Oct 28 - Holly Hunt
poetry
Essential Witchy Reads, Recommended by a Witch
Lindsay Merbaum’s syllabus for anyone curious about magic, feminist resistance, spiritual power, and the literature of the occult
Oct 27 - Lindsay Merbaum
Reading Lists
THE RADIANCE Finds Narrative Juice in the Ancient Greeks’ Forms of Love
Playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar on TikTok dramaturgy, the audiences we write for, and being part of the canon that evokes soul
Oct 27 - Cherry Lou Sy
interviews
I Will Never Be the Pianist My Father Loves Best
An excerpt from HUDSON by Hernán Ronsino, translated and recommended by Mallory Craig-Kuhn
Oct 26 - Hernán Ronsino
RR Issue No. 753
9 Works That Complicate the South Asian Diaspora Novel
BLOW YOURSELF UP author Ankur Thakkar considers genre-bending novels that deconstruct the white gaze and write beyond translation
Oct 23 - Ankur Thakkar
Reading Lists
Fixing Up Our Home Means Making Memories My Husband Might Lose
I feel I’ve been appointed with the precious task of keeping our history accurate for both of us
Oct 22 - Josepha Natzke
Personal Narrative
Exclusive Cover Reveal of BIOLAMP by Dennis James Sweeney
Ghostly plants blossom over a barren wasteland as a lone man treks toward life beyond
Oct 22 - Electric Literature
Cover Reveals
Nothing Says Quality Time Like Being Kidnapped by Dad
Two poems by Forrest Rapier
Oct 21 - Forrest Rapier
poetry
HUNA Is an Arab Prison Memoir That Refuses to Cater to the Western Gaze
National Book Award Finalist Abdelrahman ElGendy discusses the ghostification of Egyptian revolutionaries and writing violence ethically
Oct 20 - Bareerah Ghani
interviews
