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The Life of the Mind begins in the toilet, a single-occupancy restroom at an unnamed Manhattan university: “Dorothy was taking a shit at the library when...

To the Editors: In “No More Mother-Saviors,” [NYR, April 29], Sophie Pinkham begins her review of three books of Russian feminist poetry with a general discussion...

“I like to make things,” the saxophonist and composer Julius Hemphill told an interviewer from the Smithsonian in 1994, a year before his death from diabetes....

In Christine Smallwood’s debut novel The Life of the Mind, protagonist Dorothy escapes the stifled environment of an academic conference for one she finds even more...

The editor-in-chief of electricliterature.com drives the editorial vision of the website and is responsible for all content on electricliterature.com, excluding our weekly literary magazines, Recommended Reading...

By the end of elementary school in 2008, I was awkward. I hit puberty in the fourth grade; my doctors blamed hormones in KFC or suggested...

Goodreads recently introduced a new look for all of its book landing pages. It’s still in beta, so it may change before it gets finalized. For...

There’s no better time to get into manga than now. Titles like My Hero Academia dominate the bestseller charts. New series launch every month, with even...

It’s no secret that many of us spend A LOT of time on our phones. I mean, who can blame us? You can text and talk...

Cottagecore quotes time! This past year cottagecore as an aesthetic has exploded from a niche internet interest to incredibly popular. If you don’t totally understand what...