At a time when any sentient human could only feel restless despair, the new season’s trends declare us happier than ever.
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As our year of lockdown living draws to an end, there is a groundswell of opinion that terry towel trousers might stick around post-pandemic, becoming as acceptable to wear on ...
What if fantasy literature and media can be beneficial for our mental health, alongside being a huge amount of fun?
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A global account of the vaccine rollout and mishaps so far.
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There comes a point in your grown-up life when you realise that your parents are just people: human beings like anybody else. And yet they never quite lose the godlike ...
Entries are now open for the 2021 Litro Lab podcast competition!
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Written in 1905, Sōseki’s work is narrated by an anonymous moggy who spends his days observing the comings-and-goings in the household of his master….
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Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah is a giant of the late eighties – nominated for the 1987 Booker Prize, it is a combination of several unflinching portraits of humanity ...
I dream of discomfort. For a year now I have lived a hazy half-life of wool and fleece and sweatpants.
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I’ve very nearly finished re-reading Burr – which I thought I’d read forty years ago, but hardly scratched the surface.
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Seamus Heaney’s landscapes are as grim as they are liminal…..
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Vahni Capildeo’s Skin Can Hold bursts with ideas, electric with the joy of words. Capildeo is a writer enamoured with language, and her book offers up sextina, rondeau, motet, dialogue, ...
Although a translation of her short novel Ms Ice Sandwich was brought out by Pushkin Press in 2017, Breasts and Eggs is the first full-length fiction by Mieko Kawakami to ...
Although it would take me a shameful ten years to realise it, in evoking that disjunct, Alvi’s Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan is a piece of masterful storytelling.
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This week on Litro Lab podcast, we bring you a lyrical piece about a husband who is struggling to understand his wife. With a touch of humour, this story challenges ...
FROM OUR ARCHIVES: It seems a fitting time to declare that there is nothing out there as potent as black comedy to capture the absurdity of life in our time.
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FROM OUR ARCHIVES: “We believed that music is nothing but organized noise. You can take anything—street sounds, us talking, whatever you want—and make it music by organizing it.
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Half poetry and (perhaps) half polemic, the work takes the form of a series of ruminations on the Russian rural landscape as a travelling huntsman journeys through its meadows and ...
This week on Litro Lab, a beautifully rendered story on the power and challenges of devotion. Devotion is a story that encourages us to meditate on how we can be ...
How many times in a day do you say “when this is over, I’ll…?” How many plans have you put on hold since the pandemic zapped the world like a ...
