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
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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
World Star PR delivers hands-on execution, not just strategy. We actively secure radio play across commercial, independent, college, online, and specialty stations—placing music where it will actually be heard, not buried. From tastemaker DJs to syndicated shows, we target platforms that align with each artist’s sound, audience, and growth stage. Our press operations are
I love books about women who go off the rails. They can be comic or tragic. Either way there’s something serious underfoot. When a woman loses the plot, she has a good reason. She signed a deal and wants to renege. She may suddenly have some serious second thoughts about her entire life. There are
For avid readers, literary adaptations can be a source of both excitement and contention. Will the visual language of the film match the landscape in your head? Can the director capture that elusive magic of the prose? Translate the descriptive worldbuilding? In 2025, our literary adaptations list was one of the most popular articles of
Do Not Think About Death or Blowjobs Laurie Marhoefer Share article “Sixteen Hours in Iceland” by Laurie Marhoefer It was just after midnight on the fourth of October, 2016, a Tuesday, when Ben Sullivan stepped off the flight from Berlin and became the happiest person in Keflavik Airport. It was the start of his sixteen-hour
I’m writing this on the last day of 2025, knowing it won’t run until early 2026—and it’s the weird limbo time, where everything is “Best of” looking backwards or predictions of what 2026 might bring, looking forward. If the books on this list are any indication, novellas are having a bit of a moment, collections
Last year, I was given a deeply nostalgic gift: Illumicrate’s beautiful exclusive editions of Trudi Canavan’s Black Magician Trilogy—a series that had been one of my favorites in my late teens—complete with embossed hardback covers and Diana Dworak’s new endpaper artwork. Reading this series again prompted me to log back into FanFiction.net, a website where I
In the opening of Anna Rollins’ debut memoir, Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up a Good Girl, Rollins is in the ICU with a sick child, but all she can think about is how she’s going to work off the pasta she’d eaten the night before. At the time, Rollins “knew it was a
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