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    A Hidden Life – The Morals of Franz Jagerstatter and Terence Malick’s New Film

    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 ...
    by Joel Frank | February 19, 2020February 19, 2020
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    How to Tell a True Travel Story

    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 ...
    by Shane Velez | February 8, 2020February 17, 2020
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    Five-Hundred Year Anniversary: Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre

    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 ...
    by Erik Martiny | December 23, 2019April 2, 2020
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    Interview with Virtual Reality artist, Rachel Rossin

    Interview with Virtual Reality artist, Rachel Rossin

    Rachel Rossin is a multi-media and installation artist based in New York City

    by Litro | December 23, 2019December 23, 2019
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    Interview with multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie

    Interview with multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie

    At the heart of the piece is Ebizie’s experience of a rare neurological condition that was barely recognised until 2014.

    by Ellie Broughton | December 23, 2019December 23, 2019
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    Know Thy (Digital) Self

    Know Thy (Digital) Self

    Since there’s no pastime like screen time, I decided to dive into my deep well of internet sedation to understand where the hours go.

    by Jake Karp | November 30, 2019November 30, 2019
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    Losing Getting Lost

    Losing Getting Lost

    Nothing is more infuriating to me when I ask for directions from point A to point B then to be instructed, “Head east.”

    by Angela Kidd | November 23, 2019November 23, 2019
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    Your Screen, a Warped Mirror

    Your Screen, a Warped Mirror

    Forty-something emails are still marked unread because the dopamine hit comes from clicking them open, not replying.

    by Samantha Steiner | November 16, 2019November 16, 2019
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    Analogous

    Analogous

    My soft core, rose, again as a sweep of emotions turned and tumbled across—the faults, the cliffs, the shifts—parenthood’s ostensible end.

    by Amy Rubin | November 9, 2019November 9, 2019
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    Rumpus Hotel

    Rumpus Hotel

    Text message strings are a lot like hotel rooms. They’re temporary, relatively easy to clean out, and progressively get more exasperating, smarmy, and damp the ...
    by Timothy Starnes | November 2, 2019November 2, 2019
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    Interview with Author Kate Pullinger: Writing and the Digital Age

    Interview with Author Kate Pullinger: Writing and the Digital Age

    I think we need to hold a space for literature in the context of emerging forms of tech that rely on storytelling; the rise of ...
    by Litro | October 30, 2019October 30, 2019
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    Sleeping with Strangers

    Sleeping with Strangers

    Though I was unaware of her passing, I awoke at that exact moment to the sound of restless wind rustling through my bedroom.

    by Laura Iodice | October 26, 2019October 26, 2019
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    Neo-slavery in Italy? The Controversial Status of Africa’s Migrants in the Boot

    Neo-slavery in Italy? The Controversial Status of Africa’s Migrants in the Boot

    Italy’s race relations between white Italians and its African migrants and black Italians, while not stellar may not be as dire as race relations in ...
    by Olurotimi Osha | October 12, 2019October 12, 2019
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    The Email that I Just Sent my Psychiatrist was a Tour de Force of Sanity and Grace:  On Reading from the Sent Folder

    The Email that I Just Sent my Psychiatrist was a Tour de Force of Sanity and Grace: On Reading from the Sent Folder

    Dear Dr. Hanover, my Psychiatrist,
    I wrote you an email just now that was most certainly a testament—proof!

    by Kirkley Mehndiratta | October 12, 2019October 12, 2019
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    <i> Why?</i> at Polonsky Shakespeare Center

    Why? at Polonsky Shakespeare Center

    Why?’ starts as an informal introduction to the theatre, with the actors claiming God created theatre on the seventh day.

    by Anna Pook | August 22, 2019August 22, 2019
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    Stories in Ink: Litro Celebrates National Tattoo Day

    Stories in Ink: Litro Celebrates National Tattoo Day

    If you’re looking to get inked this year, these are the artists to check out!

    by Litro | July 17, 2019July 17, 2019
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    No Big Thing: My Time as a Volunteer on Lesvos

    No Big Thing: My Time as a Volunteer on Lesvos

    Rough seas, as I say. Imagining the refugees today. Would they dare, would they know, would the smugglers stay silent about the high waves?

    by Ivars Balkits | May 4, 2019May 3, 2019
  • Art, Arts & Culture

    Four Dope Queens

    Four Dope Queens

    Through the platform of ANOKO, Obialo has promoted a plethora of African women in New York City. We, at Litro, want to help these women ...
    by Litro | April 23, 2019April 24, 2019
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    Santa Fe Blooms

    Santa Fe Blooms

    Candace and I stomp our feet to the rhythm of Alice Merton’s song. We smile, throwing our heads back at the performing drag queen on ...
    by Pietje Kobus | April 6, 2019April 26, 2019
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    Austin

    Austin

    I thought the man was sleeping until I saw his dead stare. The top of his head was gone, leaving a hole ringed by wisps ...
    by mejohnsonauthor | March 31, 2019May 3, 2019

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