Brent van Staalduinen explores the ramifications of discovering three of his students with hashish in Kuwait, a conservative Muslim country that still has the death penalty for trafficking. ...
Linda Fawke pulls back the curtain on the very British tradition of the risqué postcard. Continue Reading I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside…
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A critical essay in Prose form that addresses the state of the African diaspora. Continue Reading ‘O Digba Ka Na’
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Tatyana Movshevich recalls growing up in chemical-ravaged Dzerzhinsk, Russia, and the creative wasteland that exists there. Continue Reading I Am From Dzerzhinsk
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Michael Teasdale’s stay in Hong Kong is peppered with strange encounters. Continue Reading On a Visa Run
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“It’s easy, now, on visits to Berlin, to overlook the reality of the Wall. Anyone can go to Potsdamer Platz, where a single line in the paving stones marks its ...
“They chased me slow and drunk-like, the way old-school zombies did, and as in most horror movies, I moved slow and drunk-like too, just one beat ahead of them.” ...
David Simpson finds echoes of Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Reticence in his own life. Continue Reading More Monstrous than the Monsters
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“What would they have made of the wild men? I suppose they would have thought them to be devilish presences, creatures emerging from the Underworld to torment and test the ...
In today’s Essay Saturday, Tom Wood recalls his mysterious teacher, who turned out to be 1960s music journalist Penny Valentine. Continue Reading Penny Valentine
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Michael Spring takes a look at two often undervalued novels. Continue Reading In Defence of the Unsubtle – Another Look at Kidnapped and Kim
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“I was notorious for finishing other people’s drinks. I was an Equal Opportunity Drunk: no drink was too strong, no drink was finite, size did not matter—the only thing that ...
Marc Pastor – author of our latest Litro Book Club read, Barcelona Shadows – discusses his work as a CSI, and reveals why he doesn’t trust Grissom. Continue ...
“I feared that if I stayed under London’s eaves for much longer that I’d become, not a Muswell Sally or Finsbury Park Flo – yesterday’s scandal and corroded-toe pigeons floating ...
The models looked like they were emerging from a magic forest as they brushed past a profusion of plants. Their hair was pulled back from their faces and pleated in ...
Film fashions have boldly gone where no-one has gone before. Continue Reading Imagining the Future
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Iain Robinson looks at the sinister shadow thrown by ESMA, the compound where the military dictatorship used to torture and murder its victims. Continue Reading ESMA: Place ...
In the first part of his essay on the barrio of Belgrano, Iain Robinson reflects on change and memory. Continue Reading The Old Houses of Belgrano: Place and ...
Berit Ellingsen takes us to the barren landscapes of the Arctic. Continue Reading Natura Dominatur – or: How the Arctic Gets Under Your Skin
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“What do all his non-fiction books have in common? Firstly, he was a voracious reader and although he often takes information at face value and he selects to prove ...
