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Arts & Culture, Litro #140: Diaries
Much Bothered With Buffalo
Unearthing the pioneer women of the emigrant trails . Continue Reading Much Bothered With Buffalo
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Litro #140: Diaries, Travel&Lifestyle
The Night I Got Lost on the Way Home From China
Down and out in an airport in Amsterdam. Continue Reading The Night I Got Lost on the Way Home From China
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Thy Perfect Light
“I prayed the night before my cancer diagnosis, and then I prayed again the night after. It was during the darkness of those long months in hospital—robbed of my vitality, ...
Why Facebook is Better Than Your Brain
Kevin Baker considers the ways in which Facebook acts as a memory database – and ponders what this means for the human brain. Continue Reading Why Facebook is ...
Hades’ Ferryman: How a Translator Assists Meaning’s Perilous Journey
Nicola Mira consider’s meaning’s perilous journey, and the role of the translator in ferrying it safely to distant shores. Continue Reading Hades’ Ferryman: How a Translator Assists Meaning’s ...
Litro #137: Future Fashions, Travel&Lifestyle
Imagining the Future
Film fashions have boldly gone where no-one has gone before. Continue Reading Imagining the Future
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Need an Exit
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 ...
Book Review: The View from the Train by Patrick Keiller
A career’s-worth of Patrick Keiller’s essays have been gathered together in The View from the Train. It’s a mixed bag but vital, finds Bea Moyes. Continue Reading Book ...
Days From Death
“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 ...
Yazoo Horizon
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 ...
London Hits Me, It Feels Like a Kiss
“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.” ...
The Unexamined Life
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 ...
Why Bikes Need Training Wheels (and When it’s Okay to Take Them Off)
“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,” ...
The Audacity of Being English
“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 ...
Bomb Walk
Tony Rickaby combines historical events, personal memories and fiction as he examines London’s explosive past. Continue Reading Bomb Walk
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White Girl Speaking Arabic
Andrea Calabretta gets lost in the linguistic maze of Tunisia. Continue Reading White Girl Speaking Arabic
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Alone in Paris
“You are so close you have to make it and you hope your watch is a few minutes fast. But as you round the bend of another museum you look ...
The Plight of the Romany Gypsies
Patricia Duffaud finds that discrimination and racism are still common in the treatment of Romany Gypsies and other travellers. Continue Reading The Plight of the Romany Gypsies
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Love Letter to Olympia #106
“This is one of the beauties of the place that I call home sometimes in my mind: that you can buy a dozen organic eggs at the long polished wood ...
What to Wear
Suzanne Morrison rediscovers herself, and her love of books, after a sojourn among the excesses of New York City. Continue Reading What to Wear
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