Literature

Scene: Dedeaux Field. February 1990. Actresses as far as the eye could see. Hundreds upon hundreds of hopefuls converged on...

Brando Skyhorse’s new novel My Name is Iris, is a harrowing and, at times, darkly funny exploration of one woman’s...

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TODAY: In 1835, Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm.    Of women and warfare: Cynthia Enloe considers...

Murder has long been a man’s game in literature. Patrick Batemen, Joe Goldberg and Tom Ripley are just a few...

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Gloria Steinem on 50 years of Ms. Magazine: “A movement is a contagion of truth telling: at last, we know we are...

A few years back, Mona Awad found herself in the grips of a skincare addiction. Hauling her laptop with her...

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September 22, 2023, 10:18am No one would ever define them that way, but poems are little sculptures, are they not?...

When I turned eighteen, I started going to a Lincoln Heights music venue called Low End Theory a couple times...

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September 21, 2023, 3:45pm The era of the Jonathans may be over, but could we be embarking on the age...

Electric Literature is excited to welcome Deesha Philyaw, acclaimed author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, to its board...

Maria Bamford doesn’t worry about being noticed at the dog park. “It’s Los Angeles,” she tells me over the phone...

More than 150 artists, musicians, actors, and writers — including Amanda Gorman, Roxane Gay, Parma Lakshmi, Ron Perlman, and others...