I didn’t even refer to our way of life as religion, because religion could be false

Heaven is scary in the groundbreaking digital fiction “17776”

An ever-expanding literary landscape offers important, rarely told stories

Electric Literature hosts two weekly literary magazines, Recommended Reading and The Commuter, and seeks one assistant editor who will serve both of these publications. Recommended Reading publishes...

I first wrote a list like this in February of 2017. I’d been looking for upcoming books by women of color — to review, as well as to read — and I had such trouble finding them that it felt like...

The $25,000 prize honors a book-length work of imaginative fiction

Alexander Chee, Monique Truong, and 18 other writers on the first time they saw themselves reflected in literature

"Axiom's End" takes us back to 2007, just like we all wanted—but it's not as tranquil as it sounds

Jesmyn Ward accepted her second National Book Award for fiction at last week’s ceremony. In her speech she laid bare that even at this stage in her career the dismissal of her work and its content...

These are some thoughts about utopia and dystopia. The old, crude Good Places were compensatory visions of controlling what you couldn’t control and having what you didn’t have here and now — an...

Novelist, critic, and essayist Zadie Smith, winner of the Orange Prize, James Tait Memorial Prize, and Betty Trask Award among others, can now add the Langston Hughes Medal to the list. Smith will be...

These elaborate multimedia fanfictions are more intimate than traditional works—and they've acquired their own enthusiastic communities

Physical touch in the novels of Patricia Highsmith and Sarah Waters

I first wrote a list like this in February of 2017. I’d been looking for upcoming books by women of color — to review, as well as to read — and I had such trouble finding them that it felt like...

James Baldwin: But that demands redefining the terms of the western world… Audre Lorde: And both of us have to do it; both of us have to do it… James Baldwin: But you don’t realize that in this...

Fortunetelling games aren't just child's play—they're all about telling stories

The author discusses her very personal connection to a new edition of the 19th-century vampire novel "Carmilla"

I started compiling this list of anticipated books a couple of years ago, when I was having trouble finding forthcoming books by women of color that I could read and review. It occurred to me that if...

The writing workshop/lecture Wonderbook: Scenes is an edited version, using as its starting point the transcript of a version presented at the Arkansas Book Festival in 2014. Both before that event...

From Virginia Woolf's covert longing to James Joyce's absolute filth, these are our favorite literary love notes

Three years ago this spring, I began an interview series on Fiction Advocate called Non-Fiction by Non-Men. Despite the name of the parent site, I started this series with the hope of being an...

Like many writers, I grew up not just loving books, but also living in books, through books. This meant that, for years, I never encountered people on the page who looked anything like me. It wasn’t...

It’s March Madness, and you know what that means (or, if you’re like most of us, maybe you kind of don’t. Basketball? Competing colleges? Probably a lot of drinking?): it’s time to fill out all sorts...

The acclaimed author’s commitment to ending gatekeeping electrifies our mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive

Fortunetelling games aren't just child's play—they're all about telling stories

Americans around the country are going on strike today to highlight the importance of immigrants to American culture, history, and economy. Today’s “A Day Without Immigrants” is a response to the...

Anti-Asian violence and discrimination has increased precipitously, but it has a long history in the United States

If you have a long daily commute to work, or generally spend a significant amount time on public transit, you probably understand and appreciate the benefits a good literary podcast. Rather than...

"Dickinson" shows how we can use imagination to fill in incomplete archives about women, especially queer women and women of color

The New York Times series “By the Book” asks prominent authors about their literary influences and favorites—your go-to classic, your childhood reading, your favorite book to recommend. The answers,...

Alice Wong's essay anthology "Disability Visibility" puts disabled writers front and center

As we all know, lesbians are only visible one day a year, so check out these gay and captivating books while you can