‘i love you, we’re dead meat’

by P.E. Garcia My student apologized to me for voting for Donald Trump. He regretted it, he said, because he hurt me, and he never thought it would hurt someone like me. The week before, he sat with me for almost an hour in my… Read More

No More Hawaiian Punch Notebooks

by Bud Smith “I remember driving very fast down Double Trouble Road in Berkley Township, NJ. I’d had my license for a year and hadn’t even wrecked yet. There had been a forest fire a few years before and all the pines were charred. But… Read More

The Lengua That Won’t Be Tamed

by Gabino Iglesias For a people who are neither Spanish nor live in a country in which Spanish is the first language; for a people who live in a country in which English is the reigning tongue but who are not Anglo; for a people… Read More

Online Literary Magazines and their (Intense) Diversity Problem

by Gabino Iglesias “I’ve never felt the need to begin an essay with a clarifying note, but there’s a first time for everything. I’ve been writing reviews for Electric Literature since 2014, always trying to focus on indie presses and authors. The venue has been… Read More

Of Translation and Politics in Russian Literature

by Ian Singleton “A ubiquitous metaphor of the translator is the asymptote, the curve which approaches infinity at the same time it approaches zero. It never quite makes it. This is apt, considering that translators must match, as closely as possible, not only parts of… Read More