Layered paintings, sculptural installations and personal archives: Paul Majek on displacement, memory and belonging — where physical absence converges with inner dislocation.
A sewing needle mends and it pierces. Makiko Harris on intimacy as the most powerful force there is, objects that carry contradictory meanings, and making the private impossible to overlook.
The Trophy is an homage to Man Ray, rebuilt as a print. For Yimin Xiang the printing plate is the archive that survives — and disappearance turns out to be ...
Tony Raven, former Chief Executive of Cambridge Enterprise, talks about tacit knowledge, the fragility of digital memory, AI and the people and institutions that carry ideas into public life.
In 2016, a small act of bookselling trust placed Litro in a London shop window. In 2026, the literary world is asking a larger question: in an age of AI-smooth ...
A precise, unsentimental essay on neurodivergence, publishing, query letters, networking, platform-building, and the hidden cost of being expected to perform the writer as well as write the work.
Gaby Wood of the Booker Prize Foundation speaks to Litro about short fiction, reading habits, time, cost, distraction, libraries, bookshops and why stories can still help people feel less alone.
Rebecca Evans speaks to Litro about Hinterlands, a mixed-reality dance work that places the live body, digital image and audience inside the same unstable space. The conversation moves through somatic ...
Amy Miller of Burgh House speaks to Litro about John Constable’s Hampstead years, the Heath as subject and refuge, his study of weather, local friendships, and the unfinished portrait hidden ...
Jack Newton, Head of Content Protection and Enforcement at the Publishers Association, speaks to Litro about giant pirate networks, AI training, shadow libraries, takedown systems and why copyright protection is ...
Adem Holness, Head of Music at SXSW London, speaks to Litro about live discovery, London’s many musical energies, and why festivals can still create memories that platforms and algorithms cannot.
Ty’rone Haughton of Apples and Snakes speaks to Litro about Jawdance, performance poetry, Black British poetic lineage, surveillance, leadership and why some cultural memory only exists when people gather in ...
After winning the 2026 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for Joy Is My Middle Name, Sasha Debevec-McKenney talks to Litro about imperfection, poetic form, influence, sobriety, girlhood and finding the ...
Dare Turner, Curator of Indigenous Art at the Brooklyn Museum, speaks to Litro’s Future Archives strand about cultural belongings as relatives, community authority, institutional memory and why care in museums ...
Brett Renfer, Senior Project Manager, Emerging Technologies at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, speaks to Litro about VR, Oceania, audience engagement and the need to preserve not only museum objects, ...
David Bowie: You’re Not Alone at Lightroom uses immersive projection, spatial audio and archive material to reframe Bowie’s legacy, raising the question of whether exhibition technology can deepen the art ...
Daniel T. O’Brien, Executive Director of the Independent Publishers Caucus, talks to Eric Akoto about independent publishing, AI slop, shrinking discoverability, booksellers, libraries, archives and the systems that decide which ...
A Litro guide to the best small-press fiction of 2026 so far, with six real titles from independent publishers including Cipher Press, Saqi, Cassava Republic, Moist and Conduit.
On rediscovering the humane, intimate photography of David Wise
Joanna Pocock speaks to iconic US composer and polymath Phillip Corner as he plays at Hackney’s Café Oto.