Three years in Fayetteville, and all that came with it. Continue Reading Three Years in Arkansas
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“What makes me my kind of nerd is that I’m into everything… I stepped out of the magic circle and came to terms with the fact that my rules don’t ...
“They’re powerful things, the circles that games make… I think back to the circles that I made for myself, and even now, twenty years later, I am struck by the ...
As games continue to develop and refine their techniques, Berit Ellingsen considers the architectures that arise in them, and how they may influence us as players – and as human ...
“It’s comfortable to think that now the Germans prosper while the others pay the prize for their transgressions. Your moral attitudes are flattered by this reassuring truth. But as the ...
Reece Choules remembers a youth of sticker books, dead-end jobs and second chances. Continue Reading I Remember: Knuckling Down
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Litro #134 contributor Peter Vilbig recalls a drunken night ride on a motorcycle, and all that it meant. Continue Reading I Remember: Escape Velocities
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David Glass examines the technological (r)evolution that is Virtual Reality, and asks: what would you call a project that gets you hooked on dreams? Continue Reading Need an ...
“Within universities and medical schools across the world researchers continue to make great strides in realising the potential of VR for a range of applications, including therapy and healthcare.” Dr ...
Tomorrow is May 25th, otherwise known as Towel Day: a chance to celebrate the life of Douglas Adams. Here, Jon Canter, who knew Adams better than most (they were flatmates), ...
How social media is changing the modern novel. Continue Reading Micro-Narratives of the Everyday
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When Oliver Francis walked the Kungsleden, the King’s Road, high in the Arctic Circle, he thought he’d be lucky to witness a reindeer round-up. He didn’t expect to get roped ...
Philip Davis, editor of The Reader Magazine, puts Shakespeare in an fMRI and watches the brain light up, its pathways shift. Continue Reading I Remember: “From the Table ...
“And it was this way of life that Thomas Decker was challenging when he called upon his compatriots to consider their language as a legitimate medium not only for conducting ...
Novelist Kevin Brockmeier has written the second instalment in Litro’s new series of miniature memoir. He’s nine or ten, and he’s looking down on traffic. Continue Reading I ...
The organisers of the Bad Grammar award, like many other self-appointed authorities on the matter, no doubt consider themselves guardians of the language, but they’re just defending their own bias, ...
I Remember is a new regular feature at Litro — miniature memoir. This week Sunil Shanbag recalls how the plays of Shakespeare worked their way into his life. ...
“Imagine the scene: an angry father hauls his young daughter in front of a city governor, demanding the death penalty for her disobedience in refusing to marry the man he ...
Ann Skea looks back on why only Ted Hughes could have written Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being — an audacious and imaginative reappraisal of the works of Shakespeare. ...
Rory Clements, whose sixth book in the John Shakespeare series of Elizabethan thrillers has just been published, uncovers a deadly circle of intrigue and treason in his hero’s home town, ...
