In The Weight of Our Sky, Malaysian author Hanna Alkaf places her protagonist Melati, a Beatles-loving teenager afflicted with obsessive compulsive disorder, alone and directly in...
Last week, poet Forrest Gander was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his collection Be With, which mourns his late wife and fellow poet C.D. Wright. Excited...
Before her Netflix series, patron saint of minimalism Marie Kondo first entered our lives through her best-selling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, teaching hoarders...
In honor of World Book Day 2019, Airbnb announced a sweet deal for book lovers: you can book a dream literary escape to one of several...
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Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s short story collection Sabrina & Corina summons a world we hardly recognize, but should. Do you know the origin story of the Navajo? Would...
Novel Gazing is Electric Literature’s personal essay series about the way reading shapes our lives. This time, we asked: What’s a book that changed your mind? Novel with...
When I was growing up, the only constant in my life was change. Like Oksana’s family in my novel, Oksana, Behave!, my family left Kiev, Ukraine,...
I think about the possibilities and implications of time travel way more than a normal human adult should. Let’s face it, though, filling your head with...
Have you ever read a book and just thought “everyone needs to read this?” I’m typically a fiction reader and often find it hard to get...
