Arts & Culture

In 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, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THE WOMAN FROM URUGUAY

This latest work by Pedro Mairal examines wealth, desire, and betrayal.

by Alexandra Panic • December 3, 2021December 3, 2021

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: HARROW

A fun and deeply cynical view of the future, Joy Williams’ new novel, Harrow, warns of the danger we face in “trashing” our world.

by Beth Spencer • November 25, 2021November 25, 2021

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: 533: A BOOK OF DAYS

A slow and patient novel that looks closely at the world and the author’s experience of it.

by LILIAN PIZZICHINI • November 18, 2021November 18, 2021

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: BRICKMAKERS

An exploration of masculinity by Argentina’s Selva Almada.

by Robert Montero • November 12, 2021November 12, 2021

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THE INTERIM

Translated into English by Isabel Fargo Cole, Hilbig’s final novel tells of alienation and unrest in Cold War Germany

by Stephen Newton • November 4, 2021November 4, 2021

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Reviews

FRAGILE FUTURE AT THE SHED

On the exhibit Fragile Future by the artist duo DRIFT, at The Shed in New York

by ArabellaHuttervonArx • October 30, 2021October 30, 2021

Arts & Culture, Books, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: LOVE IN THE BIG CITY

This Korean best-seller examines love and friendship in contemporary Seoul.

by Katy Ward • October 28, 2021October 28, 2021

Art, Arts & Culture, EssaySaturday

TWELVE IMAGES OF CENTRAL PARK ON OLD POSTCARDS

Old postcards of Central Park offer a window onto the past of this vital green space.

by Jim Ross • October 22, 2021October 22, 2021

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: EMPTY WARDROBES

The new translation of Maria Judite de Carvalho’s Empty Wardrobes reviewed

by Monica Cardenas • October 21, 2021October 21, 2021

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: RESET

Paolo Pergola’s novel Reset reviewed

by joshua calladine-jones • October 14, 2021October 14, 2021

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Issue

AINU OTHELLO: THE STORY OF A PLAY

Alison Watts discusses a Japanese adaptation of Othello.

by alisonwatts • June 15, 2021June 15, 2021

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Interviews, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Issue

INTERVIEW WITH MARI KATAYAMA

Japanese artist Mari Katayama interviewed.

by naokomabon • June 8, 2021June 8, 2021

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick

POSTER BOARDS AT THE PROTEST

An affecting piece from a young writer navigating the lineage and burdens of Black identity.

by delaneycostello • May 25, 2021May 25, 2021

Arts & Culture

A Very Open Letter from Donald Hump

This very open letter is not only for fake democrats but also proud republicans who have contributed to this great nation by buying more guns than even Al Qaeda to ...

by Ash Kaul • November 30, 2020November 30, 2020

Arts & Culture, Essays

The Adidas Yeezy; Or, The Self in Modern Times

Exploring the grey areas between literature and art, and also literature and culture.

by Marek Makowski • October 17, 2020October 17, 2020

Arts & Culture, Essays

somewhere there is an abandoned refrigerator

You know who doesn’t mind a high desert July? The scorpions.

by Emily Cayer • October 3, 2020October 3, 2020

Arts & Culture, FridayFlash

ARIANE

There’s this bizarro technique my doctor’s urging. It’s got a bunch of scientific terms that just sound to me like whatever whatever and no fucking way this is going to ...

by Nina Robison • July 25, 2020November 12, 2020