Literature

Three Words, Five Syllables: Lorrie Moore Classic Lorrie Moore Share article Charades by Lorrie Moore It’s fitting that Christmas should degenerate to this, its barest bones. The family has begun to seem to Therese like a pack of thespians anyway; everyone arrives, performs for one another, catches early flights out, to Logan or O’Hare. Prob­ably

I’m not saying that you have to be mentally ill to write poetry. I am saying that almost all the poets I know have some sort of diagnosis, so narrowing down this list was quite difficult. This isn’t an exhaustive list of poems about mental health, but what you’ll find here is a list of

I started Tables of Contents in 2012 with a one-off dinner inspired by The Sun Also Rises—five courses paired with five different scenes in the book—and discovered that using literature as a creative jumping-off point for cooking was (as a writer-turned-chef) kind of my dream come true. Over the years TOC has grown beyond one-off meals

From Star Trek to Dr. Who, our culture is rife with stories of time machines: contraptions capable of bouncing between eras, immersing us in how people lived way-back-when, and what the future might look like.  Short story collections can be time machines, too. Without knobs or flux capacitors, they can zip us to pre-history, then the far future and

Out of Body by Kristina Kasparian Wanda is the technician today. She asks Ethan and me to wait in the hallway until Margot is ready. We make ourselves small in the corner where they’ve wedged two chairs for situations like ours. The corkboard is covered with photos of ecstatic couples embracing their newborns. I shift

When I traveled to the Galápagos Islands, I went for the wildlife—specifically, for the penguins. At the time, the only human I’d associated with the islands was Charles Darwin. Then I learned about “The Galápagos Affair”—the bizarre human history of Floreana Island that gave new meaning to phrase survival of the fittest. What happened was

Embracing My Simmering Stew Era Green Onion Girl Grief Click to enlarge and scroll 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 on Mondays, absorbing

Writing fiction itself might be (and often is) considered an act of translation: from experience to language, from emotion to logic, from chaos to legibility. Perhaps it is a mere coincidence, or a stroke of good luck, then that these three fall debut novelists selected for our craft series each have backgrounds in literary translation.

December marks the start of the holiday season and the return of one of our favorite year-end traditions: the annual best book cover tournament. Now in its fourth year, this contest is our way of recognizing and celebrating the talented designers behind the books. After all, the cover is the very first thing you see

Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.  If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you,

Life Outside Prison Has More Bars and Fewer Boundaries Hervé Le Corre Share article An excerpt from Dogs and Wolves by Hervé Le Corre, translated by Howard Curtis They’d released him an hour earlier than planned and since it was raining, he’d had to wait under a kind of bus shelter erected at the intersection,

Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.  If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you,

Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.  If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you,

Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.  If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you,

Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.  If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you,

Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.  If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you,

If Sylvia Plath Wrote “Wild Geese” Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.  If the continued existence of

Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.  If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you,