Early memoirs of people living with HIV and AIDS played a crucial role in humanizing the disease. Those books, alongside public service campaigns and media representations, put a face to HIV and helped generate not just compassion for those affected but also a deeper understanding of the complexity of the illness. Many of the first
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I first discovered George Saunders’s writing as a college student, home for summer break. Tenth of December had just come out, and I picked it up at the sole independent bookstore in my hometown on the recommendation of a writing professor. At this moment in my life, I was feeling a bit disillusioned with literature.
Watching the steadily increasing discrimination against people from Latin America and the Caribbean [LAC] in the United States of America has been horrific; equally troubling is seeing the way in which certain people in the United States remain uninformed about their own country’s role in creating the conditions which force people to immigrate in the
“Late, Blooming” by Roxane Gay, excerpted from The Big M, edited by Lidia Yuknavitch Recently, my father sent me a picture of my cousin Ariane’s christening. In it, I was fourteen or so, her godmother. Another cousin was her godfather. We were all very young. We stood with the priest around the baptismal font, in
Rock climbing, the niche sport where people scramble up jagged cliff faces and large stones using only the tips of their fingers and toes, is, improbably, having a moment. Dedicated gyms are mushrooming up in stripmalls, warehouses, converted churches, and oversized basements. Pretty much every major city now has a veritable buffet of options for
Trauma Bonding at the Five-Year Reunion Five-Year Reunion Click to enlarge and scroll Lapse Click to enlarge Take a break from the news We publish your favorite authors—even the ones you haven’t read yet. Get new fiction, essays, and poetry delivered to your inbox. YOUR INBOX IS LIT Enjoy strange, diverting work from The Commuter
Beronda L. Montgomery, a botanist and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard, has made a career of interacting with plants, though her first attempt at communicating with them was kind of a flop. As a child, she had a full-fledged love affair with the wilds of Arkansas, but by the time she was a teenager, Montgomery
When Chicano skateboarder BeeGee skated into the frame of One Battle After Another, on his way to join pro-migrant protests amid police violence, I turned to the friend beside me and whispered, “I want a whole other movie about these skateboarders.” Imagine my delight when BeeGee and his gang reappeared, leading Leonardo DiCaprio through a
While many of us watch with dread as American society is rocked by menacing politics, New York-based author Svetlana Satchkova has already lived through the experience of her country becoming more authoritarian. Her debut English-language novel, The Undead, grapples with the fear she experienced as a cultural journalist and novelist in Putin’s Moscow, before moving
A Friendship Spanning Bombay Prep Schools and Connecticut Strip Malls Reena Shah Share article An excerpt from Every Happiness by Reena Shah Though Ruchi needed the job, any job, her first impulse when Deepa finally called was to say no. Deepa talked as if no time had passed, like she hadn’t avoided Ruchi’s calls since the
Fame used to be something sacred. Back before the internet shattered monoculture into millions of digital pieces, “celebrity” was a title held only by the saintly and untouchable few. The 50s had Marilyn Monroe. The 80s, Michael Jackson. The early aughts, Britney Spears. Try and think of a celebrity that’s defined the 2010s or 2020s,
Howard Bloom has never written “safe” books. He writes the kind that make people uncomfortable because they refuse to stay in their lane. Biology bleeds into politics. Physics crashes into psychology. Culture gets treated like a living organism instead of a polite abstraction. That through-line runs straight into the mission of the Howard Bloom Institute — and it’s
Confession: I binged Apple TV+’s Your Friends and Neighbors even though I’m about to disparage its spineless attempt to indict the corruption of the ultra-rich. I’ve watched Succession, Sirens, all the White Lotuses, Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers, The Perfect Couple, Saltburn and The Menu. All of these shows attracted me with their real
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of A Bad Deal in Mormon Land by T.I.M. Wirkus, which will be published on October 1, 2026 by Type Eighteen Books. You can pre-order your copy here! It’s 1908, and itinerant spirit medium Madame Ilsa von Hoffmann is at the end of her professional rope, facing down two unappealing options:
Towards the end of The Flower Bearers, we see Rachel Eliza Griffiths visit the papers of Lucille Clifton and Alice Walker at Emory University and the papers of Toni Cade Bambara and Audre Lorde at Spelman College. We see her hands shake over Clifton’s spirit writing, carefully lift the first draft of Bambara’s The Salt
A Genius Can Always Get Their Hands on a Violin Prodigies Mom is a groupie, so when Dad has a gig, no matter how big or small, she forces us to go as a family. She’s too dressed up: wearing tights with seams up the back, a low-cut dress and heels that will ensure eyes
When I first discovered Jeanette Winterson, I was struck by the incredible presence of her work; not only her ability to convey the tender, insular reality of love and conflict, but by the way her prose seemed to carry its own life force. Winterson doesn’t shy away from discomfort, from the turbulent landscape of her
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