Exit Hector, Again and Again: How Different Translators Reveal the ‘Iliad’ Anew

Exit Hector, Again and Again: How Different Translators Reveal the ‘Iliad’ Anew

Reading Time: 1 Min. Over the years, some 100 people have translated the entire “Iliad” into English. The latest of them, Emily Wilson, explains what different approaches to one key scene say about the original, and the translators. A scene from the “Iliad.” Each translation suggests a different understanding of its central themes of courage, […]

This Apocalypse Brought To Us By 300 Million Dumbasses

This Apocalypse Brought To Us By 300 Million Dumbasses

Reading Time: 1 Min. This Apocalypse Brought To Us By 300 Million Dumbasses Electric Literature recently launched a new creative nonfiction program, and received 500 submissions in just 36 hours! Now we need your help to grow our team, carefully and efficiently review submitted work, and further establish EL as a home for artful and […]

Getting to Know My Husband’s Late Wife Through the Words She Left Behind

Getting to Know My Husband’s Late Wife Through the Words She Left Behind

Reading Time: 1 Min. Shortly after my husband, Brandon, and I began dating, I was shocked to discover his bookshelves housed the same titles I had on mine: Beloved, The Cider House Rules, The Book of Ruth. The books weren’t his. He doesn’t share my passion for reading. They belonged to his late wife. When […]

Adventures in Memory: On Searching for Truth by Writing Fiction

Adventures in Memory: On Searching for Truth by Writing Fiction

Reading Time: 1 Min. As a fiction writer, I’ve always felt compelled, memoir style, to pore over my life’s timeline. But in a novel, I can erase, revise, smash, crash, reconstruct, and transfigure that squiggly narrative. A novel has no obligation to mirror or represent anything familiar, recognizable, or real. And one of the main […]

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