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SEPTEMBER

Litro #165: Breaking Borders | The Latin America edition

4th September 2017 Litro

Breaking Borders: Featuring, Michel Laub, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lina Meruane, Claudia Salazer Jiménez, Fernanda Torres, Yoss, Guadalupe Nettel, Rafael Gumucio, and more.... Read more →

SEPTEMBER

Litro #165: Breaking Borders | In Transit

3rd September 2017 Antônio Xerxenesky

A writer must travel, it is usually said. A writer must leave his desk, discover other cultures and so on and so on. A writer must not be like Kant, who designed an entire moral system without ever leaving his small town. Read more →

SEPTEMBER

Litro #165: Breaking Borders | The Fortean Limes

3rd September 2017 Yoss

Separated by what unites us, united by what separates us.” Slogan of the “Archipiélagos” radio program (Miami, 1990s) Read more →

SEPTEMBER

Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Bulletproofed

3rd September 2017 Fernanda Torres

Rio de Janeiro bears the weight of this karma. It lost its title as capital of the colony, the Empire and the Republic and transformed from the Marvellous City into the divided city, split between entrenched poverty and a cosmopolitan middle class, surrounded by beautiful hills and the ocean. Read more →

SEPTEMBER

Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Border Triptych

3rd September 2017 Claudia Salazar

The sun shakes me a little, quite agreeably. It’s then that I feel an indescribable urge to head to the seafront, to breathe in the Pacific, that smell of early autumn sea where the breeze and the soft drizzle blend into one, an urge to eat ceviche, to cycle around and look out at the ocean. Read more →

SEPTEMBER

Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Poems

3rd September 2017 Natalia Toledo

I spent my days between the dead’s cheeks and arms Here, at home, there are no cheeks nor arms left Our parents migrated, and our hearts with them. Read more →

SEPTEMBER

Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Sleeping Beauties

3rd September 2017 linameruane

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it; despair is a confident memory of the future.Read more →

SEPTEMBER

Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Borders

3rd September 2017 Michel Laub

London is a city spread over tunnels that are always the same and trains that always go to the same places. Read more →

SEPTEMBER

Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Moving Borders

3rd September 2017 Guadalupe Nettel

The first border I ever crossed was that between Mexico and the United States; I don’t remember, but I was told about it. Read more →

SEPTEMBER

Breaking Borders: Litro World Series Launch and Benefit NYC

1st September 2017 Litro

Join Litro in New York with Restless Books, Instituto Cervantes and a continent-spanning array of writers, artists, actors, dancers and musicians.... Read more →

AUGUST

Lotus Unfolding

29th August 2017 MPDuke

In its sensuous immediacy, the world, its fields, hills, mountains, streams, seas and many skies, heat and cold, wet and dry, its secret past unfolds. This world, this mind holds our secrets, secrets of origin, of unfolding and of end. Read more →

AUGUST

Beautiful Ivanka

26th August 2017 musepoet

Ivanka Trump, doe-eyed, swan-necked, impeccable of carriage and costume, moves with the poise of a young queen, has her own business empire, knows when not to talk, and can sell without appearing to try. Read more →

AUGUST

The Light Was Fine

22nd August 2017 Rebecca Givens Rolland

At my mother’s funeral, after the fire, my father knelt to kiss her, making the sign of the cross, fumbling with the gesture, though he’d never been religious before. Read more →

AUGUST

Dark Matters

11th August 2017 Louis Gallo

Beth’s dreams of late have taken on a dark, apocalyptic urgency. She finds herself in a place she describes as the isle of the dead, where she converses with demons, Read more →

AUGUST

The Diffraction of Light on the Fibres

6th August 2017 Angela Sherlock

‘Look,’ she points. ‘See how it moves in the breeze, how the gold threads dance in the sunshine. It shimmers like silk.’ He is interested and follows her gaze. They lie close, their bare arms touching.‘Oh, yes,’ he tells her. ‘That’s the diffraction of light on the fibres.’ Read more →

AUGUST

Taxed on Affection

4th August 2017 Sarah Estime

Experience the guilt of making love under the crucifix. Experience the thrill. Read more →

JULY

Oasis

6th July 2017 Amy Crosby

Instead, she reaches for the dial and turns it. Rain falls. Read more →

JULY

Night on the Hill

6th July 2017 Sherrykmd

Any time I found trouble as a teenager, which happened frequently, my mother warned me that I would wind up like her older sister, my Aunt Beverly. Read more →