What if fantasy literature and media can be beneficial for our mental health, alongside being a huge amount of fun?
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There comes a point in your grown-up life when you realise that your parents are just people, human beings like anybody else.
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Vanessa Bell,Virginia Woolf’s sister, gets a voice of her own to muse on flowers, loss, and the rendering of life on a canvas.
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A global account of the vaccine rollout and mishaps so far.
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Written in 1905, Sōseki’s work is narrated by an anonymous moggy who spends his days observing the comings-and-goings in the household of his master….
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A steamy dance hall gets even hotter when a mysterious blaze breaks out.
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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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This week on Litro Lab podcast, we have a disturbing piece of flash fiction with dystopian hints.
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Siren speaks of desire, through the guise of breaking and entering.
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Romantic feelings and scamming on the brunch bill put a group of friends under strain.
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In a sensory-heightened state, a young man fights through darkness
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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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