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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.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
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.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
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.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Interviews
Rosie Goldsmith on funding cuts, translation, risk-averse programming, and why too many literary festivals still play safe.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Future Archives, Story Sunday
On a bus route threaded through memory, design, and stray thought, Simeon Edwards turns ordinary transit into something stranger: a study in urban perception, presence, and drift.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Future Archives, Story Sunday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
“I awoke dead.” From there, Cervical unfolds into a compact nightmare of bodily estrangement, luxury death, and a future where even dying has terms and conditions.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
After New Year’s Eve, a husband and wife move into separate rooms. What follows is a precise, unsettling story about emotional hunger, self-deception, and the domestic objects that absorb both.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
A missed bus leaves a young woman trapped in a stranger’s grievance and in one of the week’s best examples of tension built from politeness, heat, and social pressure.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
At the Edinburgh Festival, a solitary café regular lets a stranger share his table and a single day opens into something riskier, funnier, and harder to forget.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
A quieter, elegiac late-life story about grief and aging—about the fragile inventions that make a life feel habitable again.
On a riverbank in Kyoto, a heron edges closer to a harmonica player and misreads the terms of enchantment.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
A story of survival where tenderness and danger begin to resemble each other, and the truth becomes something people negotiate rather than accept.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
A barefoot child finds a fallen chick and carries it through an abandoned house and street maze—care as instinct, fear as clock, return as vow.