Electric Literature

Literature from India’s Northeast is an under discussed literary body from a highly contested and racialized region in India. It is widely considered different from Indian Writing in English (IWE) since it comes from a unique region in South Asia that has traditionally been politically, culturally, and racially otherized from the Indian mainland. Northeast Indian Literature i...

This is the second essay in a series. Read part one of “Blue Spark” here.

Chapter II

1. Noah and I got married on August 25, 2001. My stepm...

For the spring edition of our debut craft series, three debut authors—Alexa Yasemin Brahme, Sonia Feldman, and Vincent Yu—discuss in detail their journeys through writing about imaginary lives. One may argue that all fiction is rooted in imaginary lives, but these novels especially feel centered around the stakes of these imaginary lives as the protagonists confront,...

When I was a child, my grandparents lived in a squat scab-colored house that sat in a clearing carved into the New Hampshire woods. Everything inside their house was a shade of beige or muted brown, the carpets were too thick, and there was a musty smell I associated with basements and garages. In the living room, there was an en...