Interviews
“Justine” Is a Coming-of-Age Novel for the Tamogotchi Set
Forsyth Harmon's illustrated novel vividly evokes late-'90s adolescence
Mar 2 - Preety Sidhu
conversations
Interviews
Lauren Oyler’s Narrator Is Unreliable, but So Are All of Us Online
Feb 26 - Frances Yackel
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An Argentinian Underworld Haunted by the Ghosts of the Disappeared
Feb 25 - Julian Zabalbeascoa
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The Poems of “Ghost Letters” Erase Boundaries of Language
Feb 23 - Shoshana Akabas
POPULAR in conversations
Alex McElroy Is Not Going to Make You Read “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Talking to the author of "The Atmospherians" about workshop praise, Tootsie Pops, and stories that are overassigned in writing classes
Feb 18 - Electric Literature
conversations
Who is Paradise Really For?
Cherie Jones's novel "How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House" examines race, class, and tourism in a fictional Barbadian town
Feb 16 - Yannise Jean
Interviews
How to Write About Kink Without Going Full “Fifty Shades”
R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, editors of "Kink," on the importance of taking sexuality seriously
Feb 12 - Parrish Turner
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“100 Boyfriends” Is Scripture for Gay Dysfunction
Brontez Purnell's short story collection is about desire, loneliness, and giving in to the urge to self-sabotage
Feb 11 - Greg Mania
Interviews
The Gay Bar Is the Wardrobe Into Gay Narnia
Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of "Gay Bar: Why We Went Out," on finding alternative queer community spaces
Feb 9 - Greg Mania
Interviews
An American Goes Abroad, Chaos Ensues
In "My Year Abroad", Chang-rae Lee satirizes the trope of an American finding enlightenment in Asia
Feb 5 - Jae-Yeon Yoo
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In “Milk Blood Heat,” The Body Keeps the Score
Dantiel Moniz's debut collection is about life in Florida—but more than that, it's about life in a body
Feb 3 - Jennifer Baker
Interviews
China Is Too Big to Fit Inside One Reality
The short stories in Te-Ping Chen’s “Land of Big Numbers” encapsulates the surrealism of modern-day China
Feb 2 - Mimi Wong
Interviews
Imagining Life as an Inanimate Object
Aimee Bender’s "The Butterfly Lampshade" is a fabulist novel about mental illness
Jan 29 - Melissa Lozada-Oliva
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