Vahni Capildeo’s Skin Can Hold bursts with ideas, electric with the joy of words. Capildeo is a writer enamoured with language, and her book offers up sextina, rondeau, motet, dialogue, ...
A country descends into civil war and dangerous choices must be made.
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Although a translation of her short novel Ms Ice Sandwich was brought out by Pushkin Press in 2017, Breasts and Eggs is the first full-length fiction by Mieko Kawakami to ...
A crooked man comes visiting.
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This week on Litro Lab podcast, we bring an experimental piece that mixes poetry and music. In the era of streaming platforms, many of us rarely watch TV advertising. Yet, ...
When risky, tantalising sex brings you back to your roses
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Although it would take me a shameful ten years to realise it, in evoking that disjunct, Alvi’s Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan is a piece of masterful storytelling.
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This week on Litro Lab podcast, we bring you a lyrical piece about a husband who is struggling to understand his wife. With a touch of humour, this story challenges ...
Old friends reconnect with all the danger and fragility of the night.
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FROM OUR ARCHIVES: “We believed that music is nothing but organized noise. You can take anything—street sounds, us talking, whatever you want—and make it music by organizing it.
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Can you dream your own death? Once, while sleeping, my life was spared because I had a cold.
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This week on Litro Lab podcast, we have an experimental piece with original music. On a time when many of us are stranded in one place – do you ever ...
Suffering. All life is subject to it. The first of the four Noble Truths, the shisho-tai.
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A retelling of the ancient myth of Ariadne, told in Ariadne’s own words. The stories whose endings we think we know so well are so rarely what really happened.
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Mental health seen through the lens of mysticism and the the salvation of art.
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This week on Litro Lab, a beautifully rendered story on the power and challenges of devotion. Devotion is a story that encourages us to meditate on how we can be ...
How many times in a day do you say “when this is over, I’ll…?” How many plans have you put on hold since the pandemic zapped the world like a ...
Such is the gospel of Henry David Thoreau. Transcendentalist, eco-anarchist and wild old man of the woods, Walden is a gargantuan presence in landscape writing that never fails to make ...
A young child learns about meditation and oranges.
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This is an appeal against the decision of the Citizens’ Health Commissioner (‘the Commissioner’) to refuse to grant a licence under Section 20 of the British Rights Act (‘the Act’).
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