Arts & Culture

The House Moves to Queens

New York has long lagged behind Britain on legal gambling, but Queens now has the city’s first full casino with live table games. The bigger story is not only gambling. ...

by Eric Akoto • 1st May 20264th May 2026

Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday, Features

Sketches of Short Days

In this poignant, personal essay, Tom sits with his terminally-ill uncle, Baz, and explores life, loss and laughter, right up to the end.

by Tom Druker • 3rd February 202415th January 2026

Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features

The Man on the Motorcycle

You’d never get to see his face, only squeals of alarm, and the sound of a motorcycle zooming away. A sound like a growl, even a menacing roar, over ...

by Anu Kumar • 14th October 202315th January 2026

Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday, Features

Riding an Endangered Eagle

The train between Mexico City and Nuevo Laredo was called the Águila Azteca (Aztec Eagle). Within a year of this ride, this passenger train service – along with dozens upon dozens ...

by Lorraine Caputo • 22nd October 202215th January 2026

Art, Digital Subscription, Editor's Pick, Essay, Litro #182: Experimental, Print Issues

Litro #182: Experimental – Where Art Thou Heart: Visual Language Lost on Deaf Eyes

We must recognize that painting is not all beauty and life is not always beautiful. To access this post, you must purchase Digital ...

by Jeremy Caniglia • 24th September 202224th September 2022

Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday, Features, Technology

A New Natural

Photo by Paola Rizzi “The more resolutely you plumb the question, ‘Who or what am I?’ – the more unavoidable is the realisation that you are nothing…apart from everything else.” -Alan W. ...

by Kylie Hough • 5th March 202215th January 2026

Essay, Loneliness Issue

THE LONELINESS ISSUE

Why working in a dive bar is a superior education.

by Pete Carvill • 11th May 202112th May 2021

Covid-19 Blog, podcast

Spaces / Places | LITRO LAB PODCAST

Can you feel more at home in a foreign country that you own? Caitlin Stobie explores identity, crossed roots, non-places and Covid-19 in this touching non-fiction piece. ...

by Caitlin Stobie • 19th April 202119th April 2021

Covid-19 Blog, podcast

My skin is a silver lining | LITRO LAB PODCAST

Can face masks become liberating? Podcast: Embed ...

by Kathryn Tann • 26th March 202131st March 2021

Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features

Fire and Smoke

Then I stood and waited, silent, with my arms clasped behind me…I knew them by their smell, or the way they walked, or the cadence of their voice.

by S.C. Parent • 4th January 202015th January 2026

Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features

Lessons from a Homeless Man

Having spent my entire life in a classroom, I finally graduated from university in 2015.

by Hasan Aga • 28th December 201915th January 2026

Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features

Love, Santa

Not that, at twelve, I believed in Saint Nick, but in my desperation I wasn’t above begging for a miracle.

by Jillian Pretzel • 14th December 201915th January 2026

Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features

The Orphanage

When he started walking, he would throw himself against walls.

by J. Malcolm Garcia • 30th November 201915th January 2026

Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features

On Going Fast

The charge of energy that keeps me alert – eyes open, mind going. Heart pumping. Dreams running. The quickening of the keys beneath my fingertips, an ethereal rainstorm pouring down ...

by Victoria Sottosanti • 9th November 201915th January 2026

Arts & Culture

Some Sunken Cities

That’s what she’s doing now, on the train, for her boyfriend. You could come in on it if you want.

by Gregg Williard • 12th October 201920th October 2019

Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features

The little story that haunted for a very long time

I’m talking about a story that leaves a scar, an invisible scab that you return to weeks, months, and years after you’d read it.

by David Kendall • 5th October 201915th January 2026

Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features

The Familiar Absence of Words

My grandma never spoke of the loneliness, never mentioned her loss. These unsaid things: these silences run in the family.

by Hannah Stevens • 28th September 201915th January 2026

Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features

Dead Sites

As the Jeeps rush down the highway, the old man, 73-year-old artist Alvaro Enciso, asks Alicia the names of the dead migrants.

by J. Malcolm Garcia • 24th August 201915th January 2026

Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features

Writing, and Chaplin

We are, as writers, the solar collector, the hybrid engine: we take energy from what surrounds us or our remembering of surroundings

by Rebecca Pyle • 17th August 201915th January 2026

Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features

You Shook Me

I rocked back and forth, still holding onto the headrest, singing those lyrics, whether it was the chorus or verse or that freaky middle part with the wailing

by Christy Hallberg • 27th July 201915th January 2026