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.
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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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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 ...
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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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? Explored through Jane Austen’s Emma and Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline.
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Swing Time, an outlier in Zadie Smith’s oeuvre, is stylistically interesting, socially aware, funny and wise.
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Marta Pérez-Carbonell profiles the best works of Spanish fiction yet to be translated into English.
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A woman imagines murdering her husband and reveals the paths our minds travel to find our way home.
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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 ...
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 ...
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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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 ...