Every House Learnt How to Burn
A poem/dialogue on possibility and impossibility.
Constantinople’s Jacket
In “Constantinople’s Jacket,” Álvaro Enrigue turns corporate certification into a sharp, absurd and brutal satire of workplace obedience. Translated by Diego Gómez Pickering, the story follows an office swallowed by ...
The Nest
On the sensitivities and cruel memories of youth.
The Crab’s Back
In “The Crab’s Back,” Natalia Toledo moves through Zapotec memory, childhood, pain, tradition and exile in a poem of startling bodily force. Translated by Diego Gómez Pickering, the poem asks ...
Pigeon
On a London Underground journey home from a clinic, a young woman sits beside her mother, caught between exhaustion, memory and the threat of being sent back to Mexico. When ...
Art, Arts & Culture, Comics, Litro #116: Humour
Chaperones, Gossip, and Banned Books by H. M. Bateman
Litro #183: Place – Black Excellence
They walked the four blocks to the school in silence, Adam in his head, Shayla in hers.
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I Don’t Have a Very Good Memory
Digital Subscriptions, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues
Maps to Lost Futures
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Finding Flow
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Tuscany! Tuscany!
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René Magritte’s The Banquet
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The Smell of Home
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Other Poetry
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Baby Clean
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We Are Near the End Now
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In Pursuit of Family
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Gorgeous
Letters from the Editor, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues
Litro #184: Editor’s Letter
As September shuffles in, take a dip into Litro #184: Memory, and allow yourself to reflect on the summer just gone.
Litro #183: Place, Print Issues
Litro #183: Place – Place
In the long summer holidays, the boy would accompany his mother to work. They woke early on these days, too early even for the sun.