Arts & Culture

In our Arts & Culture section, Litro explores the intersections between arts and culture, lifestyle, living and travel.
Bringing you reviews and features on forthcoming exhibitions, events, public art. Contemporary artists, and everything else in between.

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday

To the American Businessman in the Hotel Room Next to Ours

I stood from the cot next to the shared wall. My mom leaned in close to hear you. Another crash. Furniture scraping against the floor. We listened to someone’s heavy ...

by Milena Nigam • 4th February 20234th February 2023

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Uncategorised

Join the Litro Team, Deadline to Apply: May 1st, 2023

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by Litro • 30th January 202330th January 2023

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, podcast

Three Fleeting Kisses

“We are just so, him and I, mother and son. There is no love like this.” Our latest #Podcast is “Three Fleeting Kisses” by Lana Citron. Podcast: ...

by Lana Citron • 26th January 202324th January 2023

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, podcast

Hugo’s Octopus

“We lay on the grass for over an hour, listening to a bygone era.” In our latest Podcast, Helen Heikkilä explores what we lose to the past and our efforts ...

by Helen Heikkila • 12th January 202312th January 2023

Arts & Culture, Books, Feature

IN CONVERSATION WITH ALLISON MARKIN POWELL

A wide-ranging conversation with Allison Markin Powell, translator of Black Box. ...

by Ingrid Petty • 9th January 20239th January 2023

Arts & Culture, Books, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: KINDERKRANKENHAUS

Jesi Bender’s Kinderkrankenhaus reviewed ...

by Jess Cole • 8th January 20239th January 2023

Arts & Culture, Column, Editor's Pick

Open

Outside, in the cold, Silvia narrows her eyes and says, ‘You gave my number to the wrong fucking one.’ ...

by Silvia Saunders • 8th January 20239th January 2023

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: LUSTER

Raven Leilani’s debut novel Luster reviewed ...

by Katy Carr • 14th November 20229th January 2023

Arts & Culture

Continuity in Discontinuity: Adam Foulds at the London Review Bookshop

In conversation with Adam Foulds about his latest novel, In the Wolf’s Mouth, Andrew Motion suggests that his disparate body of work displays “continuity in discontinuity”. His works are also ...

by Daniel Marc Janes • 8th November 20229th January 2023

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: HOW TO GUT A FISH

Sheila Armstrong’s debut short story collection, How to Gut a Fish, reviewed ...

by Adam Ley-Lange • 21st July 202221st July 2022

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Interviews

In Conversation with . . . David Collard

David Collard writes for print and online publications including the Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, 3:AM Magazine, gorse, Exacting Clam and White Review. His book About a Girl: a Reader’s Guide to Eimear McBride’s A ...

by Katy Ward • 16th June 202214th June 2022

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Reviews

Exhibition Review: Surrealism Beyond Borders

Leonora Carrington. Self-portrait, c.1937–38. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002 © 2022 Estate of Leonora Carrington / Artists Rights Society (ARS), ...

by Carla Scarano D'Antonio • 19th May 20223rd June 2022