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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.
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How can we map new itineraries of empathy? Cartography is a way to organise knowledge, and a walk is what grounds those ideas in reality.
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This book is a humane lesson on how to remain kind and sensitive towards our fellow struggling humans
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A novel which effortlessly transcends the banality of categorisation to tell the story of a body and its struggle to feel whole.
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Reading this novel is like falling a mind map, with landscape, characters and crimes carefully plotted.
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Cixous explores the liminal space between fiction and fact, memory and history, novel and memoir.
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Saunders has made a name for himself as both a writers’ writer and a readers’ writer and this collection is full of everything you’d expect from his author.
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Despite dealing with dark subjects, this is a novel of lightness and hope
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Ito’s talent for weaving many voices is brilliantly demonstrated in this newly translated work.
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Sometimes, a larger-than-life bird woman is all a book needs.
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A savage and touching exploration of the realities of life in post-civil-war Korea
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The novel traces landmark moments in French history, from the 1971 Manifesto of the 343 to the 1981 election of President François Mitterrand.
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Li reanimates the yearnings and struggles of Chinese-Malaysian women over the years, and presents a vivid sense of place.
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Several days after finishing the book, something dawned on me in a way I’ve never experienced before… a sort of quiet marvelling.
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Getting Lost leaves one submerged in Ernaux’s world, gasping for breath, and fighting for reason.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Within every journey, there are further visible and invisible journeys. This book will remain in your head and your heart for that reason alone.