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, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Translations

BOOK REVIEW: LET NO-ONE SLEEP

Sometimes, a larger-than-life bird woman is all a book needs.

by Robert Montero • November 26, 2022November 26, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: THE AGE OF DOUBT

A savage and touching exploration of the realities of life in post-civil-war Korea

by Katy Ward • November 26, 2022November 28, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: DAUGHTERS BEYOND COMMAND

The novel traces landmark moments in French history, from the 1971 Manifesto of the 343 to the 1981 election of President François Mitterrand.

by Monica Cardenas • November 10, 2022October 21, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: THE AGE OF GOODBYES

Li reanimates the yearnings and struggles of Chinese-Malaysian women over the years, and presents a vivid sense of place.

by Christopher Redpath • November 3, 2022October 21, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: GHOST TOWN

Several days after finishing the book, something dawned on me in a way I’ve never experienced before… a sort of quiet marvelling.

by Adam Ley-Lange • October 27, 2022October 3, 2022

Arts & Culture, Books, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THE CENSOR’S NOTEBOOK

To what extent are we free from the “justified interventions” of invisible censors? And if we are not free from them, are we ever going to learn about it one ...

by Barbora Cernusakova • October 20, 2022October 12, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: GETTING LOST

Getting Lost leaves one submerged in Ernaux’s world, gasping for breath, and fighting for reason.

by Ingrid Petty • October 13, 2022October 11, 2022

Arts & Culture, Books, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: TOMB OF SAND

Tomb of Sand is a poet’s novel, exquisitely modern. It venerates eccentricity, laughs at its own ingenuity, and blurs borders in language and life.

by Hannah Weber • October 6, 2022October 3, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA

Whether you need a romance, a comedy, a satirical political history, horror, or the absurd, Karunatilaka defies genre and invites us to imagine the world beyond.

by Jennifer Brough • September 29, 2022September 27, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: BOLD VENTURES: THIRTEEN TALES OF ARCHITECTURAL TRAGEDY

While there is more travelling than arriving in this book, Van de Broeck’s compassion for her architects and their ambitions gives the book its soul.

by Jack Lethbridge • September 22, 2022September 13, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: NEWS AT NOON

A capering comedy, set against the backdrop of a pandemic, which throws in some legitimate and thought-provoking concern around the influence of new media.

by Adam Ley-Lange • September 15, 2022September 20, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: A DOWN HOME MEAL FOR THESE DIFFICULT TIMES

Within every journey, there are further visible and invisible journeys. This book will remain in your head and your heart for that reason alone.

by Barbara Wheatley • September 8, 2022September 2, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: CROW COURT

Andy Charman’s debut novel, Crow Court, is a carefully curated, episodic tale of how tragic crime is. It is not just a question of who to blame, but rather who ...

by Zadie Loft • September 1, 2022August 15, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: CAPTAIN NI’MAT’S LAST BATTLE

The intimate account of a man claiming his homosexuality, embedded within the larger history of Egyptian society.

by KMA Ramsay • August 25, 2022August 15, 2022

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Uncategorised

BOOK REVIEW: HAWA HAWA AND OTHER STORIES

Twisting tales of power, violence, love and mystery

by Zadie Loft • August 22, 2022August 15, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: PINA

Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, Pina, which won the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize, is a rebuke of the romanticised ideals of Tahiti and its golden sands.

by Katy Ward • August 18, 2022August 15, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: THE MISSING WORD

De Gregorio interrogates the classic missing person mystery and finds a deeper mystery hidden within – that of missing identity,

by Robert Montero • August 15, 2022August 15, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: THE FORGERY

Art doesn’t just provide discrete instances of ways of seeing the world, alternative encounters with it into which we can enter while looking at a painting or TV show. Rather, ...

by Ben Philipps • July 28, 2022July 29, 2022

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

BOOK REVIEW: THE FAMILIA GRANDE

We tend to think of guilt as having a straight-forward relationship with wrong-doing. We are taught that if you do something wrong, you will feel guilty and if you haven’t ...

by Andy Charman • July 22, 2022July 22, 2022

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, short story

BOOK REVIEW: HERE BE ICEBERGS

Katya Adaui sexamines the tangled knot of everyday ties that bind us – for better or worse.

by Jennifer Brough • July 14, 2022July 6, 2022

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