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Venice Requiem is a translated novel by Khalid Lyamlahy that refuses spectacle in favour of witness. In a city built on myth and tourism, the book asks what remains when ...
“Portraits of a Book Report: Zoe Schlanger” (ink on paper. 11×14” 2024)
Back in the 1970s, a book called The Secret Life of Plants exploded onto The NY Times best seller ...
As the fields are stripped bare, a family faces what’s left after the season ends. “Harvest” folds weather, work and memory together in a quiet reckoning with rural life, inheritance ...
Stranded on the Adriatic with more dreams than money, a traveller in Bari learns what you can and can’t barter when everything runs out. A story of hunger, small hustles ...
A walk into the trees becomes something stranger: a pull towards the dark centre of the forest where old stories still breathe. Part myth, part psychological thriller, this tale follows ...
I met Tom Stoppard once, in the quiet stacks of the London Library. He didn’t give me advice or aphorisms — he gave me something rarer: his time.
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A boy, a wood, and a rule older than us. Folklore lifts its head in the trees and the path narrows to a single choice.
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A night in the ward where love and procedure meet. Grief, clipboards, and the soft hum of machines. What bureaucracy can’t name, the body supplies.
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A Korean entrepreneur hustles in the grey market—magnets, money, and the price of wanting. Deals are struck on balconies and in basements; chemistry and faith trade places. A story about ...
Thankfully, for passionate bookworms, there are excellent video games that offer detailed plots filled with twists and turns.
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This week at Litro we’re publishing four stories about the moment the world tilts—softly, then all at once.
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Two lovers stand among the trees as the mind tilts. Love, longing, and the small unspokens that undo us.
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An interviewer hikes into the Black Forest to meet Dopey’s mother. Which witch? Which story? The answers arrive in deadpan whispers—and an axe that glints at dusk.
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Instead of following the removals van, Nora made her own way out of the city to her new house. It was a long drive, but much of it familiar. After ...
Somewhere in these digital worlds, cultural adaptation, small negotiations, and new hybrids are always in motion, and probably at a speed that wasn’t possible before.
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A dinner meant to save a marriage becomes a quiet reckoning. In Fine Dining (Aubade), every gesture — a sip, a silence, a final drive — cuts deeper than words. ...
A night in 1990s Plymouth unravels into violence and consequence. Feral traces the line between fear and guilt in a world of rain-slick streets, cheap lager, and moral drift. A ...
At the BSI Innovation Management Summit, Eric Akoto reflects on how the UK’s innovation frameworks can better connect systems and imagination — and why inclusion must be part of any ...
