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The Adidas Yeezy; Or, The Self in Modern Times
Exploring the grey areas between literature and art, and also literature and culture.
somewhere there is an abandoned refrigerator
You know who doesn’t mind a high desert July? The scorpions.
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 ...
Interiors
You are so beautiful it kills me, I said.
I’m not, love, he said. Perhaps on the inside. Don’t insult my eyes, I said.
Arts & Culture, The Litro Blog
Dear Rap Music (from the Dystopian Letters)
You started surveying in New York amongst poor Blacks who brought their blues, jazz, and spirituals to the city of rectangular skyscrapers.
Arts & Culture, Essays, Travel&Lifestyle
Rawhead and Bloody Bones
“A monster that lives in a cave up the road,” Evans said. “He looks in the windows of houses at night, and if he sees a kid who’s not asleep, ...
The Journey into Sacred Profanity: A Colorado Dance Troupe’s Mission of Empowerment
At first blush, a chapel might seem like an odd venue for a scene like this. But the members of Boulder Burlesque – “where the profane is sacred” – regard ...
Arts & Culture, The Litro Blog
Dear Northern Hemisphere (from the Dystopian Letters)
In the Americas, your start was bloody. It was based on the dispossession and genocide of the Natives as your men in long pants cackled in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French.
Living a Nightmare with Eyes Wide Open
She bowed her head and took a moment before answering, “I am not afraid. I cannot be afraid. Tesfay needs me not to be afraid.”
Bryan Washington’s Houston Inspired Short Story Collection, Lot- Wins the UK’s £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize
Bryan Washington’s Houston Inspired Short Story Collection, Lot- Wins the UK’s £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize
Dear Africa (from the Dystopian Letters)
With flashes from the camera phones incessant, the tourists take photo after photo of us, our talents, and the wonders on exhibit.
Tiger in the Mirror
Around the months of September and October each year, as the ten day festival of Dussera approaches, boys and men in the Dakshin Kannada in southwest India, in the region ...
Arts & Culture, Essays, The Litro Blog
Dear Corporate State (from the Dystopian Letters)
We ride the trains incessantly, and they in reality go nowhere. They circle the 500 square miles of our city that has few trees but clean air.
Reasons I Can’t Make it to Your Well-Meaning-Yet-Surprisingly-Draining Online Gathering
I’m so sorry I have to miss your Zoom party, but I can’t tell what’s even real anymore. You aren’t really going to want me there anyway. Hey, do you ...
Arts & Culture, Essays, The Litro Blog
Dear Pandemic (from the Dystopian Letters)
Everything is closed. The offices that tower to the sky in the skyscrapers, the schools, churches, restaurants, theaters, public gathering places of all sorts.
Art, Arts & Culture, Technology and Arts Issue
Art & Technology: Spring 2020: Editor’s letter.
Art across the globe is being influenced more and more by technology; or is it that we are now catching up with those artists who have used technology in their ...
Making Silence Sing
Ruminations on Literature and Alexandre Desplat’s chamber opera, En Silence
After having effectively introduced the French song “À la claire fontaine” in the Chinese setting of The Painted Veil, ...
A Hidden Life – The Morals of Franz Jagerstatter and Terence Malick’s New Film
“You must remember what you believed to be right when everything was good.”
Viktor E Frankl, Holocaust survivor and author of Man’s Search for Meaning ...
How to Tell a True Travel Story
There was a very childish man who spent a summer with a woman, fell in love, and said goodbye when she left to teach English in South Korea.
Art, Arts & Culture, Print Issues, Technology and Arts Issue
Five-Hundred Year Anniversary: Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
It seems fitting that the current Louvre exhibition has surrounded the Renaissance man who saw himself as a scientist with all the latest in new technologies to commemorate the 500-year ...