Digital Subscription, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues

In Pursuit of Family

“Too much simplicity conceals the hollows where what is unspoken lurks in the darkness.” An essay on family dynamics and food. To access this post, ...

by rukmini.girish • 26th September 202326th September 2023

Digital Subscription, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues, Technology

The Smell of Home

“Good cooking takes time and sacrifice; good Pakistani cooking takes much, much more.” An essay on generational differences and Eid. To access this post, you ...

by farzana.a.ghani • 26th September 202315th January 2026

Digital Subscription, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues

Finding Flow

"In going with the flow of the river, perhaps I would rediscover my own." Despite the climate crisis and pandemic, nature heals all. To access ...

by sammyp • 26th September 202326th September 2023

Digital Subscription, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues, Technology

I Don’t Have a Very Good Memory

A powerful essay from a survivor of the Dunblane massacre explores trauma, memory loss, grief, and survival. To access this post, you must purchase ...

by gavinbaird • 26th September 202315th January 2026

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Features, Technology

Just Noise – The Barbarian Thrill of Noise in Music

FROM OUR ARCHIVES: “We believed that music is nothing but organized noise. You can take anything—street sounds, us talking, whatever you want—and make it music by organizing it.

by Gozney • 27th December 202015th January 2026

Travel&Lifestyle

Litro #153: Open | Dead Fathers

I quit believing in god a long time ago. But every so often a wish to see Dad again rises in the form of prayer.

by kapurvikram • 7th June 20168th June 2016

Arts & Culture

Essay: The Wreckage of the Nation State in an Age of Global Migration

The climate crisis will make what we today call ‘the refugee crisis’ look nothing short of idyllic by comparison.

by agriismail • 5th May 201610th May 2016

Uncategorised

Litro #149: Love – Essay: The Black Path

I first met Carl by a fire in the woods. He was stoned from sucking a lung, I was nervous and despairing of the late hour. The flames rippled like ...

by AndyC • 11th February 201616th February 2016

Arts & Culture, Technology

Litro #149: Love: Essay – Dating in Dubai

If you’re a young Western guy or even girl, respecting a few rules means you can have the most fun-filled time of your life. For those looking for something more ...

by abrechin • 11th February 201615th January 2026

Litro #141: Myths and Legends, Travel&Lifestyle

Land of Fire and Ice

Discovering a literary paradise in Iceland.

by Andrea_Calabretta • 16th March 201515th March 2015

Arts & Culture, Litro #140: Diaries

Much Bothered With Buffalo

Unearthing the pioneer women of the emigrant trails .

by Claire Thurlow • 20th February 201516th March 2015

Litro #140: Diaries, Travel&Lifestyle

The Night I Got Lost on the Way Home From China

Down and out in an airport in Amsterdam.

by jamie95363000 • 20th February 201520th February 2015

Litro #134: Augmented Reality, Technology, Travel&Lifestyle

Micro-Narratives of the Everyday

How social media is changing the modern novel.

by jmmiller • 21st May 201415th January 2026

Litro #133: Shakespeare, Travel&Lifestyle

Year of the Prince

Ben Crystal shares exclusive fragments from his rehearsal diaries on playing Hamlet, and considers where Shakespeare might be headed next…

by bencrystal • 17th April 201417th May 2014

Litro #132: The Fairer Sex, Technology, Travel&Lifestyle

Pacification and its Discontents

Litro goes to Rocinha, Brazil with Bruce Douglas, to interview Major Priscilla Azevedo.

by brucedouglas • 8th March 201415th January 2026

Litro #123: Mystery, Technology, Travel&Lifestyle

The Enduring Appeal of the Mystery Story

The critic Tzvetan Todorov once suggested that the trick to writing a successful detective story was being sure not to innovate. The great genre work is that which best and ...

by olibelas • 6th March 201315th January 2026

Litro #122: Sex, Travel&Lifestyle

Purple Bra

I am not interested in art but I am interested in sex, so after I first learned of Currin in a New Yorker profile in January, 2008, his name and ...

by LAUREN-SEIDMAN • 5th February 20133rd June 2013

Litro #120: Africa, Travel&Lifestyle

A New Focus on Africa

It was 3:30 in the afternoon sometime in 2010 and I was just about to leave for Heathrow Terminal 5—virtually my second home—to catch a flight to Mozambique when my ...

by komla-dumor • 28th November 20123rd June 2013

Litro #118: China, Travel&Lifestyle

The York Bar

“You want to know why they call me Sugar Daddy?” A slender Chinese man with a pinstripe fedora angled on his head sidles up to Miranda and me, and a ...

by katrina-otuonye • 29th September 20123rd June 2013

Litro #117: America, Travel&Lifestyle

Amboy: A Walk in the Ruins

Amboy is a place in the Mojave desert, about 200 miles east of Los Angeles. I hesitate to call it a town: undoubtedly that’s what it used to be, and ...

by geoff-nicholson • 10th July 201224th May 2026