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United States · United StatesWhen our taekwondo master spars with us, it’s slow, instructive. He’s demonstrating a drill we’re about to do in pairs or walking through possible attacks or counters with a student to show them their own tendencies. I hadn’t seen him spar for real until a former student, a heavyweight finance bro who used to spar in college, came back one day. Anu is 25, bulky, and flexible. Our master is a 31-year-old featherweight. “What level do you want?” o…See the Story
“All Fours” and Taekwondo Remind Me Who I Am Beyond a Mother

Saudi Arabia · Saudi ArabiaIn Tracing the Ether: Contemporary Poetry from Saudi Arabia, theorist and translator Dr. Moneera Al-Ghadeer gathers sixty-two poems by twenty-six poets who have inherited both the ruins of pre-Islamic longing and the blue light of a world digitally mapped and endlessly refreshed. Tracing the Ether is one of the first English-language anthologies to present Saudi poets not as cultural emissaries, but as participants in a shared global lyric—writi…See the Story
Desert Poetry in the Digital Age

Penguin Random House · MassachusettsElectric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of The Emilys by Heather Abel, which will be published on June 16th, 2026 by Penguin Random House. You can pre-order your copy here! Eve is at a breaking point. Alone with her two children in Massachusetts while her husband pursues his music career in New York City, she’s frustrated, bored, and above all, lonely when she runs into Demeter, a childhood friend with whom she shared one transformati…See the Story