What we can sense when it is quiet.
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Attributed to William Notman. Still Life with Books, 1870s–80s. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
214 – Theodicy
God is good. Bad things happen. Both of these things can ...
Not all that is hidden is lost
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Garrison and I sit in our chairs and watch the pale blue dot spin on the monitor. The pale blue dot spins on the monitor thirty ...
When they came for him, I did not ask questions.
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You are fourteen when your dad moves the family halfway across the country to a place called River View. The name is a broken promise: your flat looks out onto ...
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a set somewhere hidden in Hollywood
kept out of sight not because the filming was a flop no because it worked out only too well and has somehow ...
Photo by Clay Leconey
There was something incongruous about the man’s back. My eyes followed him around the bookshop. He was slim, of medium height, dressed in beige, classic-cut mackintosh, and ...
On finding oneself
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JJ Bola’s latest novel, The Selfless Act of Breathing, reviewed.
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Joshua Kornreich’s latest novel Cavanaugh reviewed
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As he recovers from an accident, Brian discovers the power to create and destroy worlds
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Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt reviewed
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A crooked man comes visiting.
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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 on how we can be ...
Moving houses is disruptive: it can take a while to feel at ease in a new space. You get startled by noises you’re not used to. By different smells. By ...
“fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life.”
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A story about intimacy in the digital age, which finds our unnamed narrator trying to navigate his day to day in the run up to Valentines Day. ...
Calendar reminds me: it’s been 24 years since my resettlement. I need the annual reminder that life wasn’t always this. The anniversary must be quickly processed; ...