Layered paintings, sculptural installations and personal archives: Paul Majek on displacement, memory and belonging — where physical absence converges with inner dislocation.
A sewing needle mends and it pierces. Makiko Harris on intimacy as the most powerful force there is, objects that carry contradictory meanings, and making the private impossible to overlook.
The Trophy is an homage to Man Ray, rebuilt as a print. For Yimin Xiang the printing plate is the archive that survives — and disappearance turns out to be ...
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 ...
Flash Friday: Systems Under Strain (Four New Stories)
One morning, Michael Z. wakes to silence then to scandal. T.L. Huchu’s story is a cutting, darkly comic portrait of literary culture, AI authorship, and the speed of public ruin.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Attunement
The house came with instructions that she did not read. She assumed they were the usual conditions, the kind dutifully handed out to every new occupant, outlining ...