Its late. Already it’s late. I am hurrying back towards the Royal Mile. The streets are busier than I remember. Difficult to navigate. Surely this, the third press office, will ...
Litro contributor Lochlan Bloom reflects on his debut novel, The Wave.
It starts as you are walking home. You see a bird cart-wheeling above the rooftops. It has nothing to do with anything. You used to think everything was connected, that ...
Lochlan Bloom reviews a double bill of plays: Private View, Václav Havel’s commentary on moral compromise in a dictatorship, and Catastrophe, Beckett’s tribute to said Czech dissident.
The modern tendency to unearth past trauma in public means The Space’s Anna Weiss – about False Memory Syndrome – couldn’t be more relevant. However, says Lochlan Bloom, it raises ...
Published for the first time in English, Ismail Kadare’s exploration of writing, realism and censorship moves between the everyday and mythic in Soviet Moscow.
Lochlan Bloom finds that whilst S truly is a landmark in publishing, it sadly does not live up to its presentation with a worthwhile story. A stunning artefact, a so-so ...
Occasionally the outline of what might be called a traditional narrative is briefly glimpsed, or hinted at, poking out behind a phrase or historical reference…
While Britain’s arts journalists have decamped to Edinburgh, London’s Camden Fringe remains an intriguing alternative. In the first of Litro‘s two reviews from the Camden Fringe, Lochlan Bloom samples Window, ...
Whilst cartoonish at times, Tyler Keevil’s The Drive is an entertaining and humorous road trip through the American wastelands.
Grimeborn Festival, a season of unorthodox operas at London’s Arcola Theatre, may take its name from Glyndebourne, but Lochlan Bloom will be surprised if it shares many of its visitors…
The way that online identity is changing our real world relationships is much discussed in the press but thus far has seen relatively little literary exploration. Andrew Blackman’s new novel ...
Within Sabine Gruber’s Roman Elegy Lochlan Bloom enjoys not only the sensations of life in the Italian capital but also the wonderful depiction of tensions that have existed between Germany ...
