Welcome to the first of this year’s Litro World Series: Litro #152: the Sweden issue.

Featuring: Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s tale of less-than-perfect memories ‘Unchanged Unending’), travelling to foreign climes (for an ill-judged proposal at a Spanish bullfight, in Lina Wolff’s ‘Verónica’), political perspectives (as Agri Ismaïl comments on current racialised politics in Sweden and abroad, in his essay ‘The Wreckage of the Nation State in the Time of Global Migration’), today’s digital culture (Malte Persson’s gives a satirical poem ‘In Hell’, and the social life of parks (with an unexpectedly fraught walk in Cilla Naumann’s ‘The Park Begins Here’