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#EssaySaturday, Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick
The Enemy Within
An introspective look at the world in light of our new reality.
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Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, The Litro Blog
Eclipsed
An essay that relies on William Golding’s premise regarding human selfishness, as evidenced in his dystopian novel, Lord of the Flies, as a departure point from which to consider humanity’s ...
Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, The Litro Blog
The Nastiest Thing
On a Sunday, I sent an 800-word excerpt to my virtual writing group. The piece was about my partner, Erica – a love letter to her, really, about the ways ...
Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick
Death Letters 2020
I hope this letter gets to you. I’m going to burn it in hopes that it does.
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Boris in the thick of it! Again.
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay
The Final Hour For Brazil
While the Pandemic roars through South America, Brazilian president Bolsonaro says he’s arming the population for a coup.
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Ramadan during lockdown
But Ramadan is designed to make you think about those who can’t eat or drink. Not out of choice, but out of the inability to afford it. It doesn’t matter ...
Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, The Litro Blog
Chekhov Bets You’re Bored, and That’s OK
“Do absolutely nothing” or “be bored” haven’t made the holy list of suitable responses to the stay-at-home orders.
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Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, The Litro Blog
Traveling Amidst the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Journal Entry from March 19
For the last two days prior to the start of spring break, my mom and I frantically worked to cancel our flights, hotels, and Airbnbs in Italy and throw together ...
10 of the best theatre and dance to stream now while in lockdown.
10 of the best theatre and dance to stream now while in lockdown.
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10 online arts and culture events to stream whilst social distancing this weekend.
Find out what online events to look join over the weekend.
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A Few Words on Lockdown in Northern Italy
I keep thinking ahead to when this will be a memory. The worst spring. The spring when the blossoms and the birds were oblivious to our cries.
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From Stubborn Archivist
She stood up. Her parents had already left the house for work. She touched her belly over her blouse and felt its bubbling.
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500 Year Anniversary: Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
In some ways, it’s actually better than viewing the real painting behind its thick bullet-proof glass covering at a distance, usually behind a bustling throng of visitors.
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Interviews, Uncategorised
In Conversation with Adetokumboh M’Cormack and Raphael Corkhill: Africa, the Power of Storytelling and The German King
Adetokumboh M’Cormack & Raphael Corkhill talk about their lives, the journey to becoming storytellers, the role films need to play in changing the narrative of Africa and their ...
Chasing Tedine
I must admit I wanted to turn my nose up at the knock-off candle, ignore it, move on, and sneer at the spuriousness of it
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Her Misfortunes
The kitchen, like the rest of her house is filled with multifarious clutter, but as she neither cooks nor has dinner guests, it is particularly difficult to understand the large ...
Ugly in yellow: Memory as fallible
Finding your own “reality” in memories of childhood trauma.
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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.
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A Minute with Zack de la Rocha
There was an edge to it, a whiff of violence and unhinged possibility. In those days, the style of Leftist street protest was carnivalesque
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