Video games have been around for decades but as lockdown restrictions kicked in all over the world, more people turned to these applications to pass the time and to socialize ...
Walking in the woods brings solace during a challenging year.
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Can you feel more at home in a foreign country that you own? Caitlin Stobie explores identity, crossed roots, non-places and Covid-19 in this touching non-fiction piece. ...
Celebration is not futile, it’s a way to practice resilience.
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Can face masks become liberating?
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Litro is recruiting a new Online Editor, responsible for overseeing all online content, developing ideas, liaising with contributors, shaping the direction of the online platform and managing the section editors. ...
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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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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A brittle love story in the time of corona
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The pandemic has fundamentally reconfigured the shape of our lives – both public and personal. Masks in place, we navigate the pandemic-hit world tentatively, alternating between panic and hope, despair ...
In March 2020, the world drew to a halt. An unprecedented stasis. Many grasped for metaphors.
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Today, healthcare, and the ability to improve our own well-being, is better than ever.
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A young Moroccan woman corresponds with her mother during lockdown.
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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 ...
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 ...
I hope this letter gets to you. I’m going to burn it in hopes that it does.
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“…I called again and was rerouted five times until I was back to the same operator who initially took the call. In New Jersey, where I grew up, we call ...
You’ve bought masks, hand sanitizer. Leave the house only for essentials, they say. Flatten the curve. You should buy an oxygen monitor, you think. Your mother had one. ...
The streets are very quiet these days so the whoop whoop staccato punctuation of ambulance sirens every 5 to 10 minutes is rattling.
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