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Litro Lab 2021 Podcast Competition
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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Travel&Lifestyle
BOOK REVIEW: Natsume Sōseki’s “I am a Cat”
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…. ... -
Arts & Culture, Essay Saturday
What Grows in Kangan? Planting the Paracosm in Anthills of the Savannah
Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah is a giant of the late eighties – nominated for the 1987 Booker Prize, it is a combination of ... -
Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday
The Healthy Desire For Discomfort
I dream of discomfort. For a year now I have lived a hazy half-life of wool and fleece and sweatpants. ... -
BOOK REVIEW: “Burr” Revisited
I’ve very nearly finished re-reading Burr – which I thought I’d read forty years ago, but hardly scratched the surface. ... -
Digging the Barrows of ‘Antaeus’ and the ‘Bog Queen’: On Living, Dying and Something In Between in the Landscapes of Seamus Heaney’s North
Seamus Heaney’s landscapes are as grim as they are liminal….. ... -
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature
BOOK REVIEW: Vahni Capildeo’s “Skin Can Hold”
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 ... -
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Travel&Lifestyle
Book Review: Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami
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 ... -
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday
A “Brilliant Sun”, a “Trap of Bones” – Visions of Pakistan in Moniza Alvi’s -The Country at My Shoulder.
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 ... -
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, podcast
The Husband | Litro Lab Podcast
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 ... -
Arts & Culture, Books, Essay Saturday
The Art of Black Humour
FROM OUR ARCHIVES: It seems a fitting time to declare that there is nothing out there as potent as black comedy to capture the absurdity ... -
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday
Just Noise – The Barbarian Thrill of Noise in Music
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 ... -
Can Landscape Writing Change the World? The Human Geography of Ivan Turgenev’s Sketches
Half poetry and (perhaps) half polemic, the work takes the form of a series of ruminations on the Russian rural landscape as a travelling huntsman ... -
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, podcast
Devotion | Litro Lab Podcast
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 ... -
An In-between World
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 ... -
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay
Landscape Literature: Reclaiming the wilderness of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
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 ... -
Arts & Culture, Column, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, The Litro Blog
The Joy of Reading
The pandemic has fundamentally reconfigured the shape of our lives – both public and personal. Masks in place, we navigate the pandemic-hit world tentatively, alternating ... -
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Halloween 2020
The Monster on the Green
One night a towering monster with eyes of coal and claws of jet black rock and skin like the stony ground itself stumbles into a ... -
Lost and Found
About surviving chaos, reading, and writing. ... -
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday
Mondegreen
An essay about the idea of love. ...