Streaming is over. The magazine is back. And everyone who’s too online is apparently getting off again. The time is ripe for an analog revolution. And where better to start than the stacks? As Claire Woodcock reported in 404 Media

Collider shares their list of the most thought-provoking recent sci-fi movies, a new Stephen Graham Jones story, and more SFF links!

Here are the most memorable lines from the biggest books of 2025, including One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.

Sometimes in a moment of overwhelming emotion you hear a song. You finally hear it. You don’t just get the meaning of the lyrics, or feel the beats and the rhythm, but you hear the unutterable in the song. You

Jane Austen's plots about miscommunication and quirky families are perfect for the contemporary moment, as these recent romances demonstrate.

Six months ago, Anthony Aycock wrote a piece for this website called “How a Single Court Case Could Determine the Future of Book Banning in America” in which he detailed a case working its way through the American judicial system:

The director and actor, who died yesterday, built a remarkable career that went far beyond his comic origins.

A recent letter co-written and signed by small press publishers has highlighted the significant pressures they face, threatening them with closure and potentially damaging the literary ecosystem irreparably. Here, Jack Thompson (Cipher Press), Jess Chandler (Prototype Publishing), Sam Fisher (Peninsula

The most beautiful accent in the world belonged to my grandmother. Pat was born in 1933 in Thomasville, North Carolina, a town once famous for its furniture industry and now largely unknown. She used words like yonder and supper, and

Our quintet of quality reviews this week includes Becca Rothfeld on Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto, Dwight Garner on Ted Geltner’s Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures, Laura Miller on Maggie Nelson’s The Slicks, Hillary Kelly on Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone, and

Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in! That’s right, it’s the squirmy, wriggling, zombie-like corpse of everyone’s favorite “advice” column, Am I the Literary Asshole? (now with 25 percent more beer flavor). I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, and

It’s that time of the year again when authors with titles that came out within the last twelve months hold their breath, bite their nails, look away, then pore over the end-of-the-year “best of” lists. (Perhaps it’s obvious—I’m among this

They will be rescued. People on the mainland will become worried and someone will ready a ship! But one after the other, the men realize that no-one can possibly rescue them on an uncharted island. The expedition’s other ship returned

Pulitzer Prize finalist Sven Beckert joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his new book, Capitalism: A Global History. Beckert describes capitalism as an ongoing process comparable in significance to geological forces; he examines the way it

R.F. Kuang, the bestselling novelist behind Katabasis, Yellowface, and Babel, is taking a stand with the BDS movement. Citing a call from the organizers of the Palestinian BDS (or, Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) National Committee, the popular author withdrew from

Here's a look at what have been chosen as the words of the year so far.

Mystery lovers are eating with December's adaptations! There's everything from an ultra creepy Japanese adaptation to a Freida McFadden adaptation.

A young Sámi girl contends with the grief and angst that comes with losing her grandfather.

From 13th-century Bruges to New York in the 1980s—there are generational family sagas, haunting portraits of post-colonial life, and more.

Fissures Everything began with a tube of dried-out lipstick.  The cat pulled it out from under the fridge.  Julie and I nicknamed the cat The Inspector. She was new and so was the house. We moved in after my third miscarriage, when I was bleeding and desperate for a fresh start. The Inspector sniffed our […] The post A Severed Finger Is Rarely a Good Sign appeared first on Electric Literature.

There’s something fragile, accidental, almost cruel about the literary diary. Some other accident has to bring us into contact with it. Its classics are limited, which is to say there aren’t many of them, but by nature, those that exist are quite long. A great diary or set of notebooks can occupy a scholar or […] The post 7 Literary Diaries That Illuminate the Lives of Great Writers appeared first on Electric Literature.

Have you ever thought of romanticizing your reading life? What would it look like for you?

A love letter to reading, how to make books, Filipino culture through a decolonial lens, and more.

There's a newly translated classic, funeral directors + the undead, horror through a feminist lens, and more.

“they descend upon us” the American PhDs, eager to investigate this part of the world so often plagued by bursts of inter-ethnic violence. Before they arrived we never knew murder was indigenous to our hands, a thing that blooms at