“When Donald Rumsfeld was asked by a journalist why he was so sure that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he said: ‘We have the receipts’. Shakespeare would ...
Let Books Be Books is a campaign to put an end to the production of ‘boy books’ and ‘girl books’, and counts Philip Pullman, Malorie Blackman and Waterstones among ...
Ben Crystal shares exclusive fragments from his rehearsal diaries on playing Hamlet, and considers where Shakespeare might be headed next… Continue Reading Year of the Prince
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Life beside ruins is a curious existence. The area I know may disappear, and there is tension, excitement, in this threat. I watch for change. I don’t want to stop ...
“The landscape is flat, dusty and ugly. Along the road we saw armed watch towers and there were regular checkpoints. At these our driver merely proffered the right piece of ...
Something was tearing up whole trees and throwing them into the sea. I supposed the debris was washing down from Scotland, spewed from the Tay and the Forth, Orkney and ...
“The woman appears to be in a hazy benzodiazepine daze, not too far from sedation.” The second part of Rachel McCain’s research among the women in a community centre in ...
Rachel McCain investigates the lives of women in a homeless shelter in Yonkers, New York. Continue Reading The Front Lines, Part I
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A strong voice from the past with an extract of Argentinian writer Alicia Jurado’s memoirs. These have been translated into English for the first time by Jessica Sequeira, enabling us ...
“Something told me that the lump on my arm wasn’t to be ignored. Rubbing my finger across the lump, I was certain there was a ball of something under my ...
“The critical reception of any women’s poetry that can be labelled ‘confessional’ has engendered a self-consciousness about the ‘I’ which significantly contributed to my own discomfort in writing poetry in ...
Litro goes to Rocinha, Brazil with Bruce Douglas, to interview Major Priscilla Azevedo. Continue Reading Pacification and its Discontents
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Dan Holmes visits British writer and journalist Richard Grant in his new home on the Mississippi Delta, and is surprised to find the veteran traveller going native. Continue ...
The West is right in condemning Russia for breaching Ukraine’s sovereignty, says Katarina Nordin. But we must not get too caught up in the fiction of revolution. ...
“I realised that what we think of as conventional reality – this quiet suburban street, for instance – is just a stage set that can be swept away” said JG ...
“It’s a demanding love, London, draining its people with long, dusty streets and cramped buses. This isn’t a place for flowers, it’s a place that tests the human spirit.” ...
In this extract from his forthcoming book Lost in Space: A Father’s Journey There and Back Again, Ben Tanzer takes one last adventure into the Italian unknown. Continue ...
“We taxi towards takeoff. As the 757’s engines churn, the passengers remain absolutely silent… The pilot breaks the silence after eleven minutes – the amount of time which elapsed before ...
“There’s a first time for everything,” I said, over and over again, shaking so much I could barely feel each finger from the others. “There’s a first time for everything,” ...
“He would lean forward, absorbed in the tangled limbs of Hulk Hogan and Haku… He knew there was no chance that the Hulkster would lose. But it didn’t matter. That’s ...
