Articles
Money Can’t Take the Shame Out of Living
Mar 25 - Rachel Ephraim
Brotherhood Is a Life Sentence
Dec 11 - Bill Cotter
Celebrating What We’ve Accomplished in 2023
Dec 8 - Halimah Marcus
Betrayed by the City That Raised Me
Oct 23 - Annesha Mitha
Summer is Peak Season for Sibling Rivalry in “Little Monsters”
Aug 30 - Halimah Marcus
It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Look Down
Jul 17 - Ann Beattie
The Perfect Beach Weather for Every Gender
Jun 12 - Marne Litfin
Please Accept This Ghost-Written Apology From My Influencer Client
May 8 - Jade Jones
The Only Thing We Have in Common Is Sweaty Desperation
Apr 19 - Jon Elofson
Fate Is a Flask Spiked With Acid
Mar 1 - Joel Cuthbertson
His Father’s Memories Are Not His Own
Jan 18 - Bill Cotter
There’s No Place Like Jersey for the Holidays
Dec 28 - Drew Nelles
Best Friends Are Better Kept Long Distance
Nov 23 - Kristen Iskandrian
Music That Transcends Everything But His Circumstance
Oct 26 - Jai Chakrabarti
Lydia Millet on the Value of Neighbors in an Alienated Society
Oct 10 - Halimah Marcus
Mom’s Ghost Is Trapped in the Mouth of an Alley Cat
Sep 28 - Nick Otte
Our Decades-Long Friendship Has Become a Liability
Aug 31 - Katie Moulton
Alice Elliott Dark Writes Women in Their 80s Like Men in Their 30s
Jul 8 - Halimah Marcus
No Depth Can Bury the Family Guilt
Jun 8 - Nathan Harris
Elif Batuman on the Tragedy of Heterosexual Dating
May 24 - Halimah Marcus
Calling a Woman Selfless Isn’t a Compliment
May 5 - Halimah Marcus
The Chickens Will Inherit the Earth
Apr 27 - Zoë Ballering
Everyone’s Sins Taste Delicious Except My Own
Feb 2 - Jane Flett
The Thin Line Between a Drill and an Emergency
Jan 5 - Mark Jacquemain
In the Eyes of a Father of Daughters
Dec 8 - Matthew Neill Null
Stay Forever in the Office of the Mind
Nov 10 - Leland Cheuk
Home is a Trip You Can’t Ever Take Again
Oct 13 - K. David Wade
There Is No Test Prep for Sibling Rivalry
Jul 21 - Weike Wang
Edith Wharton Was Mom’s Love Language
Jun 23 - Robert Travieso
A Trust Fund Boyfriend Who Doesn’t Own Sheets
Jun 9 - Laurie Colwin
Things You Should Have Thought of Before Ordering a Baby
Apr 28 - Sheldon Costa
The Perfect Housewarming Gift is White-Hot Envy
Mar 3 - Rumena Bužarovska
The First Day and Everything After
Jan 6 - Joel Cuthbertson
Is There Still a Role for Literature in 2020?
Dec 17 - Halimah Marcus
A Quarantine Hobby to Stress Out Your Marriage
Dec 2 - SJ Sindu
MFA vs. GDP
Sep 9 - Paul Dalla Rosa
Nine Months Playing House in Beijing
Aug 19 - Diana Xin
Before and After She Fell Down the Stairs
Jun 17 - Kate Doyle
In Lydia Millet’s “A Children’s Bible,” the Kids Save the Parents from Apocalypse
May 12 - Halimah Marcus
Does She Have Postpartum or Is She Just Realistic?
Apr 22 - Kate Tighe-Pigott
Ted Chiang Explains the Disaster Novel We All Suddenly Live In
Mar 31 - Halimah Marcus
How to Write an Ending that is Surprising Yet Inevitable
Feb 13 - Halimah Marcus
A Beautiful Wife Is Suddenly Dead
Feb 5 - Margaret Meehan
I Bought the Goblin App and All I Got Was This Eating Disorder
Jan 15 - Rachel Harrison
Forsaken by the Bitch Goddess at Year’s End
Dec 25 - Carson McCullers
All You Have To Do Is Kill Her Off
Dec 4 - Lynn Coady
Help Us Reach 1000 Members by 2020
Nov 12 - Halimah Marcus
Married with Kids: One Star, Difficult to Assemble
Nov 6 - Courtney Maum
Schrödinger’s Cat, But for Marriage
Sep 11 - Olivia Parkes
6 Literary Party Games for Your Next Salon
Aug 2 - Halimah Marcus
A Good Samaritan and a Giant Meet on the Beach
Jul 17 - Nell Hanley
Possible Disruptions on the Occasion of My High School Graduation
Jun 19 - Jackson Tobin
What it Takes to Win the World’s Loneliest Horse Race
May 14 - Halimah Marcus
Help Us Raise Writer Payments and Double Your Gift
Apr 29 - Halimah Marcus
Do You Want to Be Her or Do You Want to Fuck Her?
Apr 24 - Sarah Gerard
To Dress In Another Woman’s Clothing
Mar 27 - Morgan Thomas
Welcome to Electric Literature’s New Website
Mar 22 - Halimah Marcus
Life Is a Joke and Death Is the Punchline
Jan 30 - Trevor Shikaze
The Girl is Always Eaten At the End
Jan 2 - K. C. Mead-Brewer
To the Island, Once More
Dec 19 - Mark Jacquemain
How Can Good Writing Survive Online?
Dec 13 - Halimah Marcus
Performing Polite Society on the Alaskan Frontier
Nov 7 - Leigh Newman
Last Chance for Early Bird Tickets to the Masquerade!
Sep 28 - Halimah Marcus
City Dwellers Live the Furthest Apart
“Make Believe” by Clare Sestanovich, original fiction recommended by Electric Literature