You have no items in your cart. Want to get some nice things?
Go shopping
Perceiving “us” and “them”
…it is not possible to get this phrase of Pink Floyd out of my head:
“Us
and them
and in the end
we’re only ordinary men”
Metamorfosis
Following the revelation, a number of things had changed.
Sex, for one. The act of sex. The rewards of sex. That sex of all things had suddenly lost its meaning he ...
Digital Subscription, Fiction, Print Issues
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Borders
London is a city spread over tunnels that are always the same and trains that always go to the same places.
To access this ...
on translation & colonialism & failure, an unfinished essay
Hannah Black’s open letter on fb to the Whitney Museum curators &; staff. “It is not acceptable for a white person to transmute Black suffering into profit &; fun, ...
Arts & Culture, Digital Subscription, Print Issues
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | I Understand
According to the education minister, anyone who doesn’t know the language of Shakespeare may as well be illiterate. Twice over in my case, since I live in New York and ...
Digital Subscription, Print Issues
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | In Transit
A writer must travel, it is usually said. A writer must leave his desk, discover other cultures and so on and so on. A writer must not be like Kant, ...
Digital Subscription, Print Issues
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | The Fortean Limes
Separated by what unites us, united by what separates us.”
Slogan of the “Archipiélagos” radio program (Miami, 1990s)
To access this post, you must purchase ...
Digital Subscription, Print Issues
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Bulletproofed
Rio de Janeiro bears the weight of this karma. It lost its title as capital of the colony, the Empire and the Republic and transformed from the Marvellous City into ...
Digital Subscription, Letters from the Editor, Print Issues
Litro #165: Chloe Aridjis: Guest Editor’s Letter
Litro invited authors from eight of Latin American countries to write about their own experience of boundaries, real and imagined, resulting in a bold array of poetry, fiction and essays. ...
Breaking Borders: Litro World Series Launch and Benefit NYC
Join Litro in New York with Restless Books, Instituto Cervantes and a continent-spanning array of writers, artists, actors, dancers and musicians….
CommComm: Inside The Dizzying Mind Of George Saunders
I came across CommComm while trawling the internet for amusement during a particularly tedious day in my job as an editor at a daily newspaper in Thailand.
World Series Editions
Every year Litro publishes an international edition that takes its focus to a different part of the globe, each edition is accompanied by weekend-long literary and cultural extravaganzas in the ...
Digital Subscription, Print Issues
Litro #162: Literary Highlife | Transcripts of the Social Imaginary in Accra: Beyond Oxford Street
To get to the proper understanding of the social imaginary from looking at the street, however, a number of things have to be borne in mind. The first that Accra’s ...
Litro Magazine Issues
Litro Magazine Issues
Litro #163: Alternative ...
Litro 159: First Dates | The Mirror
…if I were to get into a relationship, then I would be looking for perfection. However, one thing still bugs me. Why did she take the bathroom mirror? It’s the ...
Book Review: S by JJ Abrams & Doug Dorst
I so desperately want to love this book and much like bumping into Catherine Zeta-Jones in a hotel lobby, I want it to love me back instantly, thus sealing our ...
Feats, Times & Life: “This shit’s gonna be so dope,” says IOC
The IOC has insisted that the 2016 Rio Olympics are going to be the dopest yet, no matter what anyone thinks.
Hymn to an Adopted Home
I have lived in Paris’s 11th arrondissement for over fifteen years.
Litro #149: Love: Essay – Dating in Dubai
If you’re a young Western guy or even girl, respecting a few rules means you can have the most fun-filled time of your life. For those looking for something more ...
Pigmentation Problems
I could argue about having the lightest skin in my family, though I think my mother would disagree. It’s not clear from the sepia-toned photograph that she’s as light-skinned as ...