This night had been going on for years. She blew into her cupped hands, steam mingling with the smoke still in her lungs. It was a long shift. But it ...
Ashley Stokes’ latest novel reviewed Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: GIGANTIC
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M.J. Nicholls’ Trimming England reviewed. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: TRIMMING ENGLAND
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Shalom Auslander’s Mother for Dinner reviewed Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: MOTHER FOR DINNER
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This week on Litro Lab, Joel Patterson reads “Fear and Loathing in Heaven” where we witness a group of men at their orientation in Heaven. You can listen to the ...
This week’s Litro Lab podcast is “The Defender is Guilded” where a nine year old and her dad play out a court case in a car Continue Reading ...
Golden Age Hollywood provides a natural milieu for late Woody Allen. Continue Reading Café Society: The Comfortable Pathos of Late Woody Allen
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However, I retain a strong dislike for anything that defines itself by how edgy it is. Continue Reading Comedians Should Be Allowed to be Offensive. That’s Just ...
Earlier this year, we reviewed Florence Keith-Roach’s play Love to Love to Love You at the Vaults. Now, she returns in Frenching the Bully, an online comedy about an actress ...
Love, Sex & Other Foreign Policy Goals, the debut novel by The Thick of It and Peep Show writer Jesse Armstrong, is about a idealistic theatre troupe that travels to ...
Alison Moore’s follow-up to the Booker Prize shortlisted The Lighthouse walks a tightrope between tragedy-cum-thriller and deadpan comedy — and doesn’t fall. Continue Reading Book Review: He Wants ...
There’s never going to be a shortage of horrifying public figures to make fun of. I’m sure they would get a lot of mileage out of Vince Cable for a ...
Pedro Almodovar’s latest offering, his “most political film yet”, is a gaudy, farcical satire on modern Spain — but does it sound much cleverer than it actually is? Bella Whittington ...
Of all the irritations of the cinema, other people are the worst. A modern cinema audience may chatter, eat, obscure the view, throw litter, snore and confidently make pronouncements on ...
For an abject lesson in how to stage a classic farce, you could do a lot worse than the National Theatre’s current production of Arthur Wing Pinero’s The Magistrate. It ...
Whenever we meet someone new, we ask two stock questions in order to identify them: 1. What’s your name? 2. What do you do? If you ever meet me, particularly after ...
Clementine Wade is a comedian. Over the next few weeks, in line with our upcoming “Humour” issue, she will be sharing with Litro readers the trials and tribulations of producing, ...
If you Google ‘anti slam’ you get a bunch of information about a pretentious-sounding poetry movement which took place in the Lower East Side of Manhattan a few years ago. ...
