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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: CAVANAUGH
Joshua Kornreich’s latest novel Cavanaugh reviewed
Education, Essay Saturday, Features
Canvassing for School Board in a State with Struggling Schools
In this Baton Rouge district, some of the houses had no doorbells. Sometimes, the doorbells were taped over with blue masking or black electrical tape.
Riding the Canna-Bus
Our weed shop is located beside the local hospital. One might think that would be a good match since cannabis products promote health and healing too, but you can’t have ...
Bearing Witness by Elizabeth Warren
While searching for a fitting christmas gift for a young girl, a woman is reminded of her experiences growing up in the southern states of America.
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November, Washington Square by Deborah Fielding
A man stands out in the cold, hoping to spread the word of Jesus to passers-by.
https://media.blubrry.com/litro/www.litromagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/3-Deborah-Fielding-Podcast.mp3 ...
Nothing Personal
My grandfather and his best friend made the trip to the coast to find that the only work to be had was picking fruit for ten cents an hour.
Stories we cannot bear: Killed Negatives at Whitechapel Gallery
Most of us have gazed at the face of the Migrant Mother in Dorothea Lange’s iconic photograph or lingered over the beds, towels, and chairs in houses belonging to tenant ...
Digital Subscription, Fiction, Litro #117: America
Trees by Anthony Doerr
He stops at the supply room window, a floor-to-ceiling sheet of glass, double-paned, six feet wide. The best window in the entire building. Third storey, forty feet up. He has ...
Chino
Her mother did nothing but shake her head as he’d then barricade her inside that dark tomb for hours.
Arts & Culture, Litro #140: Diaries
Much Bothered With Buffalo
Unearthing the pioneer women of the emigrant trails .
Book Review: Highlights Of My Last Regret by North Morgan
This masterful follow-up to 2011’s Exit Through The Wound flits through San Francisco and Los Angeles in a savage satire of the ultra-rich and ultra-bored.
Book Review: Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
Teju Cole’s latest novel explores one man’s conflicted sense of home and belonging through the psychogeography of Lagos.
Somewhere Between The Borders: New Money
“Maximo had asked me whether I could serve—not everyone can, he added… Through it all, the figures in the Help Wanted ad from the Dallas Morning News beamed at me ...
Somewhere Between The Borders: Beach Gym, L.A.
“The palm tree leaves quivered dryly two stories above the promenade. A couple young girls rolled past in pink and red, skin yellowish in the humid air. Not a glimmer ...
Litro #135: Somewhere Between the Borders, Travel&Lifestyle
Three Years in Arkansas
Three years in Fayetteville, and all that came with it.
Broken Homes and Broken People; the Meaning of ‘Family’ in This Dark Road to Mercy
Claire Rodwell explores the broken family unit within Wiley Cash’s This Dark Road to Mercy and the unconventional influence this has on Easter and Ruby’s perception of familial roles.
The Three Horsemen: Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Sir Salman Rushdie at 92Y, New York
Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie were figureheads of late twentieth-century literary London – the last great era of British fiction. So what happened when the three of them ...
The Hollywood
Last year, a new shopping centre opened on the outskirts of London. There’s something for everyone: expensive shit, cheap shit, mid-priced shit, all laid out in a sort of class ...
For the Love of Leftovers
This blog series has been about my discovery of UK culture, but this particular article is inspired by a recent trip home to the States – a trip that showed ...
Are You Posh?
Accents fascinate me. I’m guilty of half-listening to people, half trying to figure out their accent. If we watch John Bishop’s stand-up routines, my husband has to translate, since I ...