My Therapist Is a Literal Zombie
“Z” by Julián Herbert, translated by Christina MacSweeney I communicate with my psychoanalyst by phone. My psychoanalyst is called Tadeo. Tadeo pretends to be an impartial...
Electric Lit’s Favorite Short Story Collections of 2020
Did everyone else notice that the New York Times list of 100 notable books from 2020 only included one short story collection? Weird, right? There were...
7 Books to Get You Through Unemployment
It’s no exaggeration to say that 2020 has been one of the toughest years in living memory. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating medical impact,...
How Reading Helps My Writer’s Block
Reading was one of my first true loves. I can’t really remember a time when I wasn’t reading. Some of my earliest memories involve curling up...
5 Food Novels By Southeast Asian Women Writers
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Francis Bacon’s familiar maxim, about the degrees with which a...
On Rereading The Wheel of Time Series Two Decades Later
Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series has been with me for more than half my life. At 14, I spotted a tome of a book sitting...
Weird Jobs in Comics: The Unpowered Team Member
There are character types who show up time and again in comics. Are they tropes? Not always. A character can fill a comparable role on a...
5 Books for an Introduction to Disability History in the U.S.
I’m not a historian, but I love researching. I’m also constantly thinking about how ableism affects my and other disabled people’s lives. I enjoy academic and...
The Most Popular Under-The-Radar Books in U.S. Libraries: July–September 2020
Once a quarter, Panorama Picks takes a deep dive into the data about ebook use at libraries across the U.S. It’s a fascinating look at not just the...
Bath Book Holders Perfect for Reading Dates
It took me a while to find the true joy in reading in the bathtub, and one of the big reasons for that was not having...
