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Cat Town
Imagine a cat, a stray, that became a woman every sunrise, a fierce black-haired woman named Lucia….
How to Catch an Unusual Fish
I pick up my lover and we drive to the abandoned ice cream shop, pull around behind it.
Book Review: Map of Another Town, by M.F.K. Fisher
Best known for her food writing, in Map of Another Town the American writer M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a virtual tour of the French town of Aix-en-Provence.
Four Days: A Provocation
So this is East Germany, 1972. We scramble for our passports, watching passengers exit under machine guns aimed at our train from atop nineteenth-century iron catwalks arching above the tracks. ...
Book Review: The Cartography of Others, by Catherine McNamara
The backdrops are real and effectively drawn but it is in charting the contours of the human condition that McNamara succeeds with skilful interpretation.
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Todo es de Color – Children of Catalunya
A charming lively plaza in el barrio de Gracia, behind a lone lit window on the third floor, a nineteen-year-old girl smokes a cigarette.
To ...
“They Fell Queasy – But They Love It”:The Pitchfork Disney at Shoreditch Town Hall
Director Jamie Lloyd’s Philip Ridley production is high on drama and tension, yet nothing new is teased out of the text or re-evaluated in a modern context.
A Southern Education: Charlottesville to Richmond, VA
When a city’s downtown is deserted on a Saturday afternoon, I want to go AWOL, too. That was my reaction after leaving our Richmond, Virginia, hotel to explore the area ...
Maps of Imaginary Towns
Dad’s key rattled in the lock, and Ma went down the hallway to meet him.
Neuro-Landscapes: YOUARENOWHERE at Shoreditch Town Hall
Though it may be difficult to take in or understand, it’s like nothing you’ve seen before.
A Storyteller, a Carpet and the Search for Epic Song: Nick Hennessey’s Where The Bear Sleeps at The Forge, Camden Town
Nick Hennessey is an award-winning storyteller who stands on carpet and performs his unique takes on folk tales. Emma Whipday goes to The Forge in Camden Town to see his ...
The Town Pool
Down on his luck and struggling to make ends meet, Carlos Cunha finds a temporary respite behind the chain-link fence of the municipal pool.
Feature Film: Wonderful Town
A stranger rolls into town in a car carried by the force of a great wave, a wave that lives on in the memories and haunts the dreams of the ...
Excerpt from Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants
The day before his departure, Xiao Lin spent half a day packing his clothes. His wife Ah Fen insisted that he take his winter jacket – and packets of instant ...
The Bookshop Q&A: Kemptown Bookshop
Kemptown Bookshop
Name
Kemptown Bookshop
Location
91 St George’s Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 1EE
How long have you been open?
17 years. The owner/manager is Mr Darion Goodwin and the shop manager ...
Fiction, Litro #110: Street Fiction
Lessons in Tightrope Walking by Jac Cattaneo
The girl in harem pants stopped just in front of the painting, blocking my view. As I craned to see my favourite Chagall in the Musée Rath, I noticed the ...
Litro #106: Catalan
“This is one of the beauties of the place that I call home sometimes in my mind: that you can buy a dozen organic eggs at the long polished wood ...
Safety at Sea
Unexpected encounters at sea redefine love in Sarah’s honeymoon journey
Book Review: White Nights by Urszula Honek
The debut short story from Polish writer Urszula Honek, White Nights, is akin to reading an account of a haunted place – one that is beautiful and devastating in equal ...
Book Review: Whispering Walls by Choman Hardi
We sit with a question that Hiwa’s brother Gara writes in a letter: “What makes the past so dangerous?” To which Hiwa contemplates, “Is it the past that makes the ...