Venice Requiem is a translated novel by Khalid Lyamlahy that refuses spectacle in favour of witness. In a city built on myth and tourism, the book asks what remains when ...
A sharp, unsentimental read of late-capitalist burnout: Severance and Ripe render offices as dreamscapes of hunger, loyalty, and dread. This review asks the only question that matters—how do we keep ...
Just then, the chime sounded as the door was flung open.
‘You… you bastards!’ a voice thundered.
The teens’ heads spun around, and there was Dokgo’s towering frame filling the ...
Victorian Psycho plunges you into the eerie depths of a crumbling mansion where nothing is as it seems, and the line between sanity and madness blurs. Virginia Feito masterfully weaves ...
“Just when you think you’re done with a story, it pulls you right back in.”
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In the murky world where shadows blend into the even darker shades of espionage and international intrigue, David Bickford, with a past woven deeply into the fabric of British intelligence, ...
The debut short story from Polish writer Urszula Honek, White Nights, is akin to reading an account of a haunted place – one that is beautiful and devastating in equal ...
We sit with a question that Hiwa’s brother Gara writes in a letter: “What makes the past so dangerous?” To which Hiwa contemplates, “Is it the past that makes the ...
Litro celebrates the power of translated fiction with its top 8 picks of translated books that have enriched the literary landscape of 2023.
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Author Robin Stevens reflects on the pressures of conforming to feminine expectations during Christmas, advocating for the timeless joy of gifting books.
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How does the Booker Prize maintain its relevance in contemporary literature? From Paul Lynch’s recent win to debates on subjectivity and the balance between commercialization and creativity, this article delves ...
A wide-ranging conversation with Allison Markin Powell, translator of Black Box.
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Jesi Bender’s Kinderkrankenhaus reviewed
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Raven Leilani’s debut novel Luster reviewed
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Sheila Armstrong’s debut short story collection, How to Gut a Fish, reviewed
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Not all that is hidden is lost
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On finding oneself
Rituparna SahooRituparna Sahoo is a ...
Sequoia Nagamatsu’s debut novel How High We Go in the Dark reviewed
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Kim Fu’s Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century reviewed
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Lucie McKnight Hardy’s latest collection of stories, Dead Relatives, reviewed
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