At Litro Magazine we aim to bring together a broad community of readers with a common interest in good literature. We want to know what you are reading that is ...
Recently, we asked our readers to send in a short review of their favourite book of 2012. We’re pleased to announce that our favourite review was by Leah ...
What’s your favourite book this year? Tell us about it in under 250 words.
We’ll compile a handful of our selections in a Litro Online feature, and ...
We’ve been revisiting fairytales lately. The Grimm brothers’ annotated bicentennial edition, introduced by A. S. Byatt, was published recently by W. W. Norton, who also published, in 2007, an annotated ...
In response to the well-known fact that women remain under-represented generally across the film industry, a competition designed to encourage more women in film journalism has been announced by Sight ...
If you love literary supperclubs, make sure you make it to this one. There’s sure to be chocolates galore, for those of you with a sweet tooth, though I’m sure ...
Geoff Kronik
We apologise for the delay in announcing the results of last month’s “China” flash fiction competition, held jointly with Sheffield University’s Confucius Institute and School of East ...
Screengrab image from Underbelly by Christine Wilks
Today’s new feature on Litro from Robin Stevens considers the possibilities for new, formative and ‘truly interactive and immersive storytelling’ by way ...
Whether it’s music, literature or contemporary art that interests you, here are some events happening this weekend in London:
Sounds and Colours: Book and CD Launch
Front cover of ...
Nobel Laureate Mo Yan
Here’s hypercapitalism at work in the book industry: following the Chinese author Mo Yan’s win of the Nobel prize for literature, Chinese Communist party officials plan to ...
Earlier in May this year, it seemed the English world’s premier global women’s prize for fiction was under threat. Orange had pulled their sponsorship to focus on film, and in ...
It’s Bram Stoker’s 165th birthday today and Google has created a cobwebbed doodle to celebrate. The gothic vampire title Dracula is, of course, the Irish novelist’s most famous work, originally ...
It’s no secret we’re a fan of the short ghost story master, M. R. James. Last week, we ran a Litro Lab episode featuring Robert Lloyd Parry who, in ...
This weekend (like every weekend in London), there is a whole range of activities on offer. Here are a few that we like the look of:
South Asian Literature Festival
An illustration ...
LONDON, Mon, 29 Nov—I’d been eagerly anticipating the Phillip Pullman-Neil Gaiman event on Monday evening, only to see, when I arrived at the Cambridge Theatre’s entrance, an A4 piece of ...
The emergence of the world’s biggest book publisher was announced today. Sadly, it won’t be called “House of the Random Penguin”, as our Arts Editor Becky Ayre suggested, but ...
LONDON—Irish author Martina Devlin‘s story “Singing Dumb”, about a young girl from a rural community whose three-year-old brother is involved in a car accident, won the 2012 V.S. Pritchett ...
Lena Dunham’s first book deal; a reading by Man Booker prize shortlisted authors; Mo Yan the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel prize for literature; the new Women’s Prize ...
Navigate a mirror maze by scent; literary adaptations galore at the 56th London Film Festival; Moby Dick as science fiction; Daniel Radcliffe to star in adaptation of Joe Hill’s 2010 ...
Jeffrey Eugenides weighs in on the gender imbalance debate; the 2012 Man Booker prize chair of judges and bloggers on whether blogging is destroying literary criticism; the Shakespeare’s Globe stage ...