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:
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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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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
Editor’s note: This essay deals with topics of childhood sexual assault, rape, and incest. “Hush” by Torie Rose Wiley The Armless Maiden, or in some retellings, The Maiden Without Hands, is an ancient folktale that has been passed down throughout different cultures and generations. In the older versions, a young girl lives alone with her
Growing up in Caracas in the ‘90s, I remember seeing a series of posters advertising Venezuela’s most important tourist destinations, such as El Salto Ángel, Canaima National Park, and the Los Roques archipelago. The caption “Venezuela, el secreto mejor guardado del Caribe”—“the best kept secret of the Caribbean”—was written beneath each picture. The message was
We Are Silent Skin Waiting to Sing Red Fruit Nobody ever begins from where it hurts. Overcome with ache, have we not lived our lives thinking ourselves whole? Have we not thought the echoes our hymn of being complete? Look at the flowers. How they waitpatiently in the morning for the red sun.Listen to their
“Go West, young man!”—a phrase that looms large in the United States’s history of westward expansion. It’s a history dominated by the displacement of Indigenous peoples, the exploitation and destruction of land, and a drive to claim more, more, always more: more resources, more gold, and more land, but also more control of the stories
From ride-hailing to door-to-door delivery apps, labor platforms have created a shining new way for millions across the globe to make a living, offering flexibility, autonomy, and low-entry barriers. These forms of gig work have experienced rapid growth while raising questions around worker protections, job security, loneliness, and the role of technology. Gig work can be
A raven, poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin told me, is one of the few birds that will look at you as it sings. Ornithology has shown that birdsong patterns are passed down through generations, much like human language; they contain sounds that no longer have a source. Birdsong, in a sense, is an archive of the
At Least My Best Friend Stabbed Me in the Front Gina Frangello Share article “Slut Lullabies” by Gina Frangello I found out my mother was a slut from my best friend, at a bar with my secret Greek boyfriend who was possibly a homosexual and his uptight brother who pretended to know nothing of our
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