A brief, intimate flash about desire, faith, performance and regret, as a bedroom conversation turns into a reckoning with what gets hidden and what gets saved for later.
As the lake retreats and rabid dogs gather at the shore, an ageing couple hold out on an island, finishing a children’s book for the daughter they lost.
Two young women drift through Copacabana, caught between heat, danger, silence and spectacle in Louise Stern’s archive story “Rio.”
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 ...
Bia Oliveira speaks to Litro about Sadler’s Wells’ first Dance Digital festival, choreography made for camera, young filmmakers, AI anxiety, rights, and why dance on screen should not be treated ...
As reading moves through search, retail platforms, social media and recommendation systems, Kat Pongrace of Strand Book Store argues that discovery still depends on trust, curiosity and the bookseller’s eye.
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 ...
In May 2015, Rand Paul spoke for more than ten hours against the renewal of Patriot Act surveillance powers. The speech belonged to one political moment, but the deeper question ...
After Taiwan Travelogue won the International Booker Prize 2026, Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King spoke to Litro about false archives, food as historical memory, Japanese colonial Taiwan, translation, and ...
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.
From Taiwan Travelogue to The Witch, these are the International Booker 2026 titles and translated novels Litro readers should know before the winner is announced on 19 May.
From over 200 anonymous submissions, five stories were shortlisted for The Odds Are In. We’re pleased to announce AKALA AKA by Anselme Eme as the winner.
Before the system names a pattern, someone has already seen it. “Doña Yola’s Algorithm” is a story about prediction, authority, and who gets believed.
By Gull Ditta
A data gardener confronts the zero-sum ontology of prediction markets—brilliant speculative fiction that reads like philosophy.
Leo’s world was made of percentages and they were the ...