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Go shoppingIn our Arts & Culture section, Litro explores the intersections between arts and culture, lifestyle, living and travel. Including Theatre reviews and dispatches from live cultural events from across the globe; with features on forthcoming exhibitions, public art, contemporary artists, and Litro’s own performance series, Litro Live! And everything else in between.
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews
if there are two fearsome things lurking in the collective psyche of young Japanese minds today, it is surely having children, and moving to the countryside.
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews
English-readers can at last explore the upside-down worlds of the great Budi Darma.
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews
A story of loneliness and dislocation that celebrates the art of story-telling.
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews
“Monsters Like Us” explores the violence human beings inflict on one another, and though pervaded by melancholy, it offers some hope for a better future.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews
Gu weaves together the gripping and sometimes heartbreaking tales of a contract killer trying to outrun her past.
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Every part of our lives becomes a story one day
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A dramatic reminder of the persecution and privation experienced by those forced to flee.
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An exploration of language and identity in a quasi-dystopian landscape.
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Solà’s use of sound and color is best when read out loud.
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It is true that not everybody lives the same way, but some of us will for a time…
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Be wary of monsters – they bite.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews, Translations
This could be her last chance. Luc might be the best she can hope for. Or maybe she has finally just tired of defying expectations…
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews
If being a writer is the greater height, where lower to fall than the foot of a neglected tower block?
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A chilling contribution to a sadly slim body of works that highlight the plight of women in Morocco today
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Jarring, discombobulating, and challenging, Mandanipour’s stories are a very necessary read.
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Blue by Emmelie Prophète reviewed
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If you’re looking to become submerged in a strange disquieting world, It’s Getting Dark certainly delivers.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Interviews, short story
Translator Tiffany Tsao in conversation
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In Pasaribu’s stories, all places offer only temporary shelter, and all relationships are doomed to change or expire.