Venice Requiem is a translated novel by Khalid Lyamlahy that refuses spectacle in favour of witness. In a city built on myth and tourism, the book asks what remains when ...
“We were no longer young.” GC Perry sets the violent breakdown of a marriage in the warmth and magnificence of Tuscany’s countryside.
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An old house. Drugs. Danger. One old woman must grapple with her memories and the passage of time in a haunting tale of love, loss, and the echoes of the ...
“The best trick of your twenties is to eschew self-reflection." The witty ups and downs of our twenties and life in the city.
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“What am I to do with this one life? That is all I think about all day long.” The story of a copywriter and the monotony of life.
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N/A Oparah brings us an exploration into mother-daughter relationships, and the way religion and technology play their part.
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“Good cooking takes time and sacrifice; good Pakistani cooking takes much, much more.” An essay on generational differences and Eid.
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Dorothy Lune's flash piece gives voice to a vibrant René Magritte painting, pushing the boundaries between words and visual art.
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"In going with the flow of the river, perhaps I would rediscover my own." Despite the climate crisis and pandemic, nature heals all.
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Don’t you know, the heart gets lost in so much empty space?
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A powerful essay from a survivor of the Dunblane massacre explores trauma, memory loss, grief, and survival.
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As September shuffles in, take a dip into Litro #184: Memory, and allow yourself to reflect on the summer just gone.
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When we set up the equality, inclusion and diversity programme, internally known as EID, pronounced /eɪd/, we thought a guy like Ted – let’s call him Ted – was perfect. ...
Photo by Angie Chung.
Is it turtles all the way down?
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The supreme principle is the monad. The monad is also a second principle, along with the dyad. The ...
In the provincial town of Udon Thani, in Northern Thailand, in the middle of a brain-meltingly hot day, my partner and I find a terrace and sit down to have ...
On constructing new vessels
Rose Maria Woodson
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Measure for measure
Billie Pritchett
Billie Pritchett is a ...
During an attack, a woman recalls a ghostly presence
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On the challenges of writing and the sins of memory
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Kevin Baker considers the ways in which Facebook acts as a memory database – and ponders what this means for the human brain.
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