Before the current ICE occupation, many folks in the activist community moved off Facebook, Meta, X, and went to, at the time, more secure communication platforms. I asked a Lakota friend, activist at Standing Rock, if he was leaving FB.

Read a book that embodies everything we wanted in a boarding school experience only to unleash a nightmare lying in wait.

Two years ago, I stood in Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes’s home office in the South Bay, surrounded by a whirlwind of color-coded index cards, open notebooks, and stacks of books, all orbiting a large whiteboard crowded with both historical facts and imagined possibilities. She told me—almost casually—that this was the research for the novel she was […] The post Preserving Hawaiian History and Heritage Through Magical Realism appeared first on Electric Literature.

Our story starts long before Augustus and the goddess Annona with Marcus Portius Cato, an ultraconservative, “make Rome great again” senator. As was typical of the senatorial aristocracy, he had vast landholdings in the countryside. Part of his mission as

Office culture follows us around. Working for a startup, a big corporation, a personal brand, or in the gig economy, it’s hard not to feel the gravitational pull of the grindset—and its shadow, unemployment. This isn’t new, of course. Capitalism

Two new celebrity book clubs launched in 2026. Here's what they are, what they're reading, and how you can get involved.

Stock up during the shortest month on these fantastic new sci-fi and fantasy books out in February 2026.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, a spotlight immediately glared upon the Japanese community. My Japanese American parents were ten and fourteen; for months their families lived in fear of what might happen to them. Their

Philip Roth, Zadie Smith writes in her essay collection Dead and Alive, was a patriot. An “unusually patriotic writer,” in fact. Smith met Roth when he was in his eighties, retired from writing, and she recalls that he devoted the

Before George Floyd was murdered, I lived a few blocks down 38th from the site of his death, and I would walk with my stepdaughter to the Bancroft food forest. We’d pick whatever we could carry—cherries, plums, pears. She called

Berlin in the late 1920s was home not only to the flourishing nightlife we know from Cabaret—it was also a leading center of science, architecture, technology, and the fine arts. While Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera was breaking box office

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 […] The post 10 Recent Memoirs Reminding Us That the AIDS Epidemic Isn’t Over appeared first on Electric Literature.

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. […] The post George Saunders on Putting Your Faith in Revision appeared first on Electric Literature.

It is now officially the year of the horse, specifically the fire horse, which makes way for new beginnings, newfound energy for change, and a death of old patterns that no longer serve. Take a deep breath and welcome this newness after the reckoning that was 2025, the year of the snake. The year of […] The post 67 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2026 appeared first on Electric Literature.

Yeehaw! This week's new YA book releases include a rodeo romance, a cozy romantic fantasy, a magical circus, and so much more.

Take a trip through time with these 9 fascinating new historical fiction releases, which include singers, soldiers, doctors, con artists, and more.

For thousands of years before ICE made the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building the home base for their sweeping immigration roundup, this place has been known to the Dakota people as Bdote, where two waters come together, the confluence of

From sweet romances ('tis the season, after all) to exciting fantasies, there's plenty of stuff to keep you occupied until March

Russia has a new official dictionary. The Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation, compiled by St. Petersburg State University, with the assistance of the legal department of the Russian Orthodox Church, has joined the list of

Living outside of the United States, my social media feed from back home over the last three weeks has felt like it is primarily composed of highly analyzed snuff films. These analyses have been necessary because, across the political spectrum,

Lately I have been losing words. Not poetically, not as a metaphor for grief or heartbreak, shock or awe. I mean I am literally losing them. A name I should know (my own child’s), nouns that once arrived without coaxing

The most prominent of Du Bois’s intellectual influences was James McCune Smith. Brilliant and uncompromising, Smith was a public intellectual with the distinction of being the United States’ first university-trained Black doctor. In 1846, in a stinging and exhaustively researched

For years, Bianca Stone has worked tirelessly to enshrine the writings and memory of her grandmother, Ruth Stone. Ruth was a poet who earned her laurels, including the National Book Award and the Vermont Poet Laureateship. Of course, accolades or

Sylvia Of course, I’d think of Plathevery time I’d see her—that lanky, black, sweet old cat at New Hope Assisted Living,who’d lie, draped across the couch,or curl like a shadow in a patch of sun, watching residents comeand go, pushing

The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. To kick off our Winter Mini-season for 2026, Geoff Dyer (recipient of a 2015