Barnes & Noble's Book of the Year beat out bestselling cookbooks, fantasy, and noir. There are also now Best Gift Book and Best Children's Book selections.

Sympathy for Monsieur B by Kayla Min Andrews The truth is that I have always been impatient with real life, with its tedium, and its pettiness, its flossing and flushing, its what’s-for-dinner, and how-you-doing [. . .] It is why I was not so good at marriage, and better at having short affairs. You got […] The post On Madame Bovary, My Mother, and Money Anxiety appeared first on Electric Literature.

Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of Place Envy by Michael Lowenthal, which will be published by Mad Creek Books on February 6, 2025. You can pre-order your copy here. Growing up in places where his family had no past, and met mostly with silence from his Holocaust-refugee grandparents, Michael Lowenthal longed to […] The post Exclusive Cover Reveal of “Place Envy” by Michael Lowenthal appeared first on Electric Literature.

From pulp sci-fi covers to Art Deco to paintings and now digital art, here is a tour through sci-fi covers through the centuries.

Whether it's through poetry, short stories, or graphic novels, these books will help the young writer in your life find their voice!

Are you tired of aristocrat historical romances? Do you want more variety in your reading? I have the books for you.

October 9, 2025, will forever remain etched in my memory as a day of fragile hope. The sun rose over Gaza, casting a pale, dusty light over rubble-scarred streets. The air smelled faintly of smoke and dust, reminders of the

I was born into a country where people with uteruses had the right to choose if, when, and how they would carry a fetus to full term. I don’t live in that country anymore. I grew up in a world

I had wanted to write a thriller for a long time. A thriller like The Talented Mr Ripley or The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, about illusion and forgery. What I loved about The Spy Who Came in

I was revisiting Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies when I stumbled upon Adam Farrer’s memoir, Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures. I had been looking for a way to come to grips with U.S. politics, particularly with young males who are attracted to the ideology of the far-right. You can find me reading a memoir about […] The post This Memoir Takes A Sledgehammer to Notions of Masculinity appeared first on Electric Literature.

On summer break from his university studies, a young Robert Louis Stevenson worked late into the night. He apprenticed in his family’s lighthouse engineering business but had no interest in the trade. Instead, he had “made his own private determination

Last week, several prominent staffers at Teen Vogue—including culture editor Kaitlyn NcNab and politics editor Lex McMenamin—took to socials to share bummer news. A round of layoffs had hit half the masthead. Six writers who’d made their names covering climate change,

When my older son was six years old, we watched the first half of The Lion King. I’d loved this movie as a child and had seen it dozens if not hundreds of times. I knew every song by heart.

It feels like we are all lurching from emergency to emergency these days, from climate and humanitarian emergencies, to constitutional emergencies and emergency powers used against our civil rights. But what if it all finally collapsed? What if there was

During her husband's presidencies, Michelle Obama became one of the most watched women in the world, not only for what she did but also for what she wore.

The Atlantic was born in an era of information overload.

Barnes & Noble, Publishers Weekly, and the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance announce their favorite nonfiction books of the year.

A cute Agatha Christie adaptation, a One Battle After Another chat, a new streamer to now, and more.

This week's comic news includes great manga/anime adaptations, Deadpool at Disneyland, the best graphic novels of the year, and more.

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This new horror novel is a deliciously dark story about what it takes for women to "have it all."

“I like to think I’m actually a smart person,” the late American anarchist and anthropologist David Graeber told me one evening in a restaurant near his office at the London School of Economics. “Most people seem to agree with that,”

General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko dies at Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital on March 10, 1985. The first person to be informed of his death is academician Yevgeny Chazov, the chief physician of the Central Committee. Chazov knows that who he informs

In the 1960s, R&B music was still designed to make you move. Hum any tune by one of the era’s many geniuses and stars and you’ll immediately think of its groove: “Green Onions,” with its hip-knocking blues; the finger-snap elegance

For the four years I spent writing and editing my debut novel, I was preoccupied with one question: what would it mean to share a mind? To feel another’s hunger as your own, to carry their fears inside your chest,