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Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features
The Orphanage
When he started walking, he would throw himself against walls.
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Borders
London is a city spread over tunnels that are always the same and trains that always go to the same places.
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | The Latin America edition
Breaking Borders: Featuring, Michel Laub, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lina Meruane, Claudia Salazer Jiménez, Fernanda Torres, Yoss, Guadalupe Nettel, Rafael Gumucio, and more….
Arts & Culture, Essay, Print Issues
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | I Understand
According to the education minister, anyone who doesn’t know the language of Shakespeare may as well be illiterate. Twice over in my case, since I live in New York and ...
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | In Transit
A writer must travel, it is usually said. A writer must leave his desk, discover other cultures and so on and so on. A writer must not be like Kant, ...
Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Two Cities, Two Islands: An Interview with Miriam Gómez
Deep inside the Gloucester Road apartment where the Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante resided from 1967 until his death in 2005, the visitor finds a majestic landscape.
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Rotterdam
It had never been his intention to travel via Rotterdam…
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | The Fortean Limes
Separated by what unites us, united by what separates us.”
Slogan of the “Archipiélagos” radio program (Miami, 1990s)
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Bulletproofed
Rio de Janeiro bears the weight of this karma. It lost its title as capital of the colony, the Empire and the Republic and transformed from the Marvellous City into ...
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | The Last
I never knew him. What’s left to me of him are the scenes I’m able to imagine, starting with the five boxes from the archive his widow left to me.
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Border Triptych
The sun shakes me a little, quite agreeably. It’s then that I feel an indescribable urge to head to the seafront, to breathe in the Pacific, that smell of early ...
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Poems
I spent my days between the dead’s cheeks and arms
Here, at home, there are no cheeks nor arms left
Our parents migrated, and our hearts with them.
breakfic, Fiction, LunchBreak Fiction, Print Issues
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Sleeping Beauties
Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it; despair is a confident memory of the future.
breakfic, Poetry, Print Issues, Technology
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Daily Resurrection
They divide the Earth with bloody lines
waving cloths with stripes and stars,
full of pride in plastic trophies
they issue laws that kill our souls,
dangling the deadly bait ...
Essay, Essay Saturday, Print Issues, Technology
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | The Temptation of Hope
The fantasy ended in February 1989. The real world twisted round to show its darkest face. A crushed, neglected populace, invisible to the democratic intelligentsia, raised its voice in anger. ...
Arts & Culture, Essay, Print Issues
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Moving Borders
The first border I ever crossed was that between Mexico and the United States; I don’t remember, but I was told about it.
Essay, Print Issues, Technology
Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Figures over the Strait
How long is the flight between Havana and Miami?
Letters from the Editor, Print Issues
Litro #165: Chloe Aridjis: Guest Editor’s Letter
Litro invited authors from eight of Latin American countries to write about their own experience of boundaries, real and imagined, resulting in a bold array of poetry, fiction and essays.
Litro Does Latin America: Ana Mendieta: Traces at the Hayward Gallery
Right after seeing Traces, the Hayward Gallery retrospective of major Cuban artist Ana Mendieta, Lauren Frankel’s perception was amplified: the world took on a new kind of magic.
Litro Does Latin America: CASA Latin American Theatre Festival 2013
Last month Charlotte Fereday, scholar of Latin American theatre, reviewed the Royal Court’s New Plays From Chile. Now she turns her hand to an even more sprawling and ambitious event: ...