The White Revolution: Sacred Cows in India
Supriya Ambwani investigates how the pervasive idea of cow veneration in India has affected the country’s milk and beef industries, and even the landscape.
The End of the Word As We Know It: Reading in the Age of Distraction
A decade ago the web remained quarantined indoors, anchored to desktops by Ethernet umbilical cords, and a good novel could still help to pass the time on a heaving tube ...
Truth, Memory and Memoirs
Sam Dodson ponders why we are so stung when the truths revealed in a celebrity memoir turn out to be lies. Conversely, why do we willingly watch, read and engage ...
Best Settings for Detective Stories
Gwen Smith considers the unsung merits of North Wales, Durham, canal boat holidays and the W.I as potential settings for murder mystery novels.
Rise of the Clones and the End of The New
With every sequel, with every repetition of form and the creation of tropes, our ability to find a little mystery we can relate to disappears.We begin to know what a ...
The Rise of the Sugar Daddy
Gwen Smith looks at the current controversy over the role of the “sugar daddy” phenomenon in Africa, and the treatment of the concept in the Western media.
Literary Characters Who’d Be Good at Twitter
Would Mr Darcy have got on with Facebook? Gwen Smith considers the social media savviness of her favourite literary characters.
Denial: A Former Call Girl Shares Her Story
When I worked as a call girl, I relied on, and needed, denial to function in life. That denial was essential in order to work. To have sex with men ...
Sacred Cows
In this, the first of her columns for Litro challenging Indian attitudes to the sacred cow, Supriya Ambwani questions the Hindu ban on eating beef, investigates what’s behind the traditional ...