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Litro #172: Addiction, Print Issues
From Dust and Needles – A Memoir
Excerpts from a memoir
Litro #172: Addiction, Print Issues
The Body is a Battlefield
Women, from a young age, are conditioned to be the diplomats, the carers, the ones who absorb the blame. And so a woman who is distressed might stage a silent ...
Chasing Sakura: 04. Faces
The Land of the Rising Sun is also the Land of Many Faces.
This Will Be the Last Time
An addiction to a debauched act brings the narrator to a decisive brink
Editor's Pick, Litro: Arts & Culture
Immersive Forays Into Klimt, Schiele and Hundertwasser
The experience is not unlike standing at Times Square at night, but the honks of the city are replaced by a classical music track, and fewer people mull around gaping ...
Up North
A mishap on a snowy day evokes a variety of emotions that tug at your heartstrings
Kites and Crows
That day, a love affair did not begin. A man and a woman did (not) meet on a train.
At the Fringe III: Alien visitations and misogynoir
In our final Fringe round-up, Isabelle Dupuy singles out three very different productions that stood out for her in Edinburgh – all of which are transferring to London theatres over ...
Editor's Pick, Litro: Arts & Culture
At the Fringe II: Eternal youth and male anger
After another jampacked Edinburgh Fringe comes to a close, it’s time to look back at the shows that truly impressed. Felicity Hughes picks her highlights in the second of our ...
Poetry Review: Meat Songs by Jack Nicholls and Pisanki by Zosia Kuczyńska
These poems and prose poems are not simply love letters to loyal companions; instead the reader is presented with Blakeian explorations into perspectives: the points of view of animals, their ...
Editor's Pick, Litro: Arts & Culture
At the Fringe I: Hip-hop circus and anti-Brexit monologues
Isabelle Dupuy brings us the first of three roundups, carefully selecting a handful of must-see shows from the 966 on offer at the Fringe this year.
Out of the Blue
A man sees the map of his beloved’s body on a hospital screen after an accident, and contemplates their possible estrangement
Editor's Pick, Litro: Arts & Culture
Destruction and dependency: Spiral at Park Theatre
It centres on their lives literally spiraling into destruction and dependency in the aftermath of the disappearance: Tom on an escort who looks like his daughter, Gill on alcohol and ...
Everybody Loves Flowers
The apocalypse always lies ahead. Though it’s past coming in the mythical future, often it feels we’ve arrived, even if we’re always approaching.
The Darkness
A youth is terrified by the dwindling flame in the midst of a forest. (By one of our youngest contributors, middle school student Tommy Bollinger)
Editor's Pick, Litro: Arts & Culture
Rhythm, rapture and revolution: Carmen La Cubana at Sadler’s Wells
Keeping true to the “joyous and noisy” spirit of the people he found when visiting Cuba, Renshaw adds to Bizet’s arias the vibrant and effervescent rhythms of mambo, salsa, rumba ...
Poetry Quintet
You think I want to be here?
Listen, I was young like you once, too.
The Crossing
“The Crossing”, Rajeev Chakrabarti takes us through the journey of a Syrian refugee’s desperate flight from war, seeking a new home.
What the River Takes
The town of Hadley connects to its neighbor, Lake Lennucks, via a sudden, precipitous drop. A paved bridge looms over the narrowest point, where the river Ames plummets into a ...
The Touch Thief
A man plays a creepier, lonelier private game on the London Underground.