As the summer progresses and the warm weather-induced laziness sets in, I’ve found myself longing for a good summer read. This has caused me to reflect on some of my ...
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Table of Contents
Summer 2019
The Editor’s Letter
Eric Akoto
Guest Editor’s Introductory Note
Ira Silverberg
Nadia Owusu- “ ...
“Becca”, a short piece of fiction revolving around a sales pitch for an unusual new type of life jacket.
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This week on Litro Lab is Marcy Henry’s “Pantone 213U”. Moving toward natural scenes in the American South West, the author plays with colours speaking about optical window, red’s dominance ...
The excitement begins at the airport. You know deep down that in that bag is a ring, a big diamond one that shoots doves at unhappy people, a ring that ...
The theme of this year’s competition is Movement, and we’re asking entrants to inspire and captivate us with compelling stories around this concept. Stories must be no longer than 2,500 ...
“AN EXTRAORDINARY KILLER HAS ARRIVED IN LONDON, HELL-BENT ON DESTRUCTION. Joel Sorrell, a bruised, bad-mouthed PI, is a sucker for missing person cases. So when the mysterious Kara Geenan begs ...
As we introduce our new fortnightly food blog Food For Thought, we reflect on the place of food writing in our culture today.
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In youth we were thunder-bringing, earth-shaking, feather-footed kids. We lived in the suburbs, all those perfect houses in rows and all their perfectly manicured lawns, but sometimes when we were ...
Featuring fiction by Chloe Aridjis, Daniel Krauze and Álvaro Enrigue; poems by Natalia Toledo, Samuel Noyola, Sara Uribe and Luis Miguel Aguilar; a dramatic monologue by Ximena Escalante; and art ...
The Power of Words When I met Eric Akoto, a few months back, I did it through words. A letter received at the Embassy and replied the same way. From ...
Dear Reader, When I say or write the word Mexico, I always think that the word itself is an enchantment. It sounds beautiful, looks striking on the page and always ...
Last week over at Litro UK, the team in London ran the latest in our series of literary experiments on Twitter. We asked our UK followers to write a collective ...
Featuring new fiction from Sam Mills, Louise Palfreyman, Armel Dagorn, Bethany W. Pope, Ruth Brandt and Francoise Harvey - plus travel writing from Andrea Calabretta, and an interview with Hari ...
Dear Reader, There’s something timeless about the best stories. While societies grow and history marches forever onwards, human nature hasn’t changed much over the centuries. It’s little wonder that we’re ...
The author of Gods Without Men discusses myths, UFOs, and the future of literature.
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Featuring new fiction from Shashi Tharoor, Ariel Dawn and James Mitchell; non-fiction from Claire Thurlow and Jamie Lynch; and an interview with Chuck Palahniuk.
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Chuck Palahniuk discusses Fight Club 2 and his latest novel, Beautiful You.
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I wondered what might happen to people who don’t feel like they’ve found themselves; they don’t know who they are so they don’t know where they fit in. Was there ...
Join the discussion of our current Book Club pick, Danny Wallace’s Who is Tom Ditto
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