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Arts & Culture, book review, Books, Editor's Pick, Travel&Lifestyle
BOOK REVIEW: OF WOMEN AND SALT
Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt reviewed
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NAM
Two veterans make a choice.
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A CROOKED MAN’S KNEE
A crooked man comes visiting.
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, podcast
Devotion | Litro Lab Podcast
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 ...
Flat-Pack Pirate | Litro Lab Podcast
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 ...
Call for Submissions
“fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life.”
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Being Human
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.
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Dis-
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;
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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 ...
#TheWednesdayPlay, Arts & Culture
The Wednesday Play: A Puppet Tale
A Puppet Tale is the first of a new fortnightly feature publishing short plays by some of the most exciting emerging theatre practitioners.
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A Play To Devour: My Brilliant Friend at the Rose Theatre, Kingston
B.L. Sherrington reviews a new stage adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend.
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Are Marriage and Independence Mutually Exclusive?
Are marriage and independence mutually exclusive? Explored through Jane Austen’s Emma and Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline.
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Dreaming of Home: Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Swing Time, an outlier in Zadie Smith’s oeuvre, is stylistically interesting, socially aware, funny and wise.
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The 10 Best Untranslated Spanish Novels
Marta Pérez-Carbonell profiles the best works of Spanish fiction yet to be translated into English.
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Mendacities
A woman imagines murdering her husband and reveals the paths our minds travel to find our way home.
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Invisible
Sally laughs out loud, breathes in the night air then strides forwards, her head held high as she’s assailed by the treacherous rain. Her shoes feel tight, her wig feels ...
Waiting for the Flood OR The Bathers
The two women are sitting in their beach chairs in the shallow water, low waves and foam lapping at their bare calves… They look to the west, from where the ...
Introducing Precious Williams Litro Magazine’s New Fiction Editor
Meet Litro’s new Fiction Editor Precious Williams and find out what she looks for in a great piece of fiction.
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Inkubation
I’m in the shower when I see it: a black dot, just above my elbow, static under the suds slithering down my arm. I assume it’s biro and carry on ...
Book Review: The Dream of My Return by Horacio Castellanos Moya
One hot, black midnight in El Salvador a woman answered her phone. “We are going to kill your son,” the voice on the other end informed her. The marked man ...