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BOOK REVIEW: SOLO DANCE

In ‘Solo Dance’, by Li Kotomi, Japan – Asia’s most advanced country – is described as a “queer desert.” Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: SOLO DANCE

by Kevin McGeary • June 23, 2022June 26, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Family Vacation

Be quiet. You’ve been living in a strange house. It’s a sunny afternoon, but Mom’s upstairs with a stomach ache and Dad’s mapping a route. He’s desperate to find a ...

by Rachel Ephraim • June 19, 2022June 8, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

The Lucid Interval

One of memory’s slyer tricks is to colour things with a sense of foreboding. When I think of that night in Siena, the details seem prescient. The moon against a ...

by Robert Herbst • June 18, 2022June 19, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: LINEA NIGRA

Linea Nigra is a journey into an elsewhere and a valuable documentation of self-transformation. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: LINEA NIGRA

by Jennifer Brough • June 16, 2022May 27, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Road to Methuselah Spring

A blizzard swept through New England on the night Gretchen and I arrived, throwing our marriage into question and quickening a slow process of separation which had already been underway ...

by Tim Griffith • June 12, 2022June 8, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Walking the West Side Highway

I didn’t know the history of the West Side Highway when my mom and I started walking it in the mid-1970s. All I knew was that it was closed to ...

by Karen Rosenberg • June 11, 2022June 10, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: THREE

Perrin has a beautiful talent for capturing the atmosphere of small-town France Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THREE

by Andy Charman • June 9, 2022May 27, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Dedicated Dancers of The Greater Oaks Retirement Community

A New Yorker finds solace in an unexpected place in Florida. Continue Reading The Dedicated Dancers of The Greater Oaks Retirement Community

by Anna Dempsey • June 5, 2022May 31, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Half a Woman on the Side of the Road

At a truck stop I can really look my situation in the face. The first trans women I saw as a child were on episodes of Cops, caught doing things ...

by Gal McMahon • June 4, 2022June 21, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Insomnia

Even after all these years, he couldn’t believe it’d happened while he was asleep. Curled up under the sheets, knees tucked. He never heard the screech of brakes, the impact ...

by VINCENT CZYZ • June 3, 2022June 10, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: THIS WORLD DOES NOT BELONG TO US

A warped subversion of childhood that excavates the depths of human cruelty. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THIS WORLD DOES NOT BELONG TO US

by Alexandra Cocksworth • June 2, 2022May 27, 2022

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Interviews, Literature

Interview with Natalie Garcia Freire

From her home in the Andes, Ecuadorian author Natalie Garcia Freire discusses religion, ecology and feminism, with Litro’s Book Review editor Jane Downs. Freire’s latest novel ‘This World Does Not ...

by Jane Downs • June 2, 2022May 27, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Seduction

He has begged her not to go home yet. And though she has rejected his suggestion of the dessert wine and shaken her head at his watery wink—an old trick ...

by Andrea Bianchi • May 29, 2022May 27, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

Life’s Ups and Downs

The amusement park sprawled across acres of land criss-crossed by paths and studded with buildings and rides. Although some of the rides offered a great deal of vertical movement, others ...

by Jason Arment • May 28, 2022May 27, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Mardi Gras

FAT TUESDAY I’m six or seven, and we’re standing on Canal Street, my dad, mom and sister, who’s too young to remember any of this.  It’s late February but so ...

by Louis Gallo • May 27, 2022May 13, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: MISTER N

A complex, beautiful, poetic and disturbing mediation on human existence. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: MISTER N

by Tamar Drukker • May 26, 2022May 16, 2022

Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday

North Idaho

Time goes by so fast, doesn’t it? Recently I had the chance to read Eula Biss’s essay “Time and Distance Overcome.” She gives the reader a quick history of the ...

by Johanna Tollefson • May 21, 2022May 20, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

The Staten Island Hanger

We knew about the Staten Island Hanger, everyone did, sitting on its own on a large lot near the New York Harbor, like you could bring something up from the ...

by Gil Kaplan • May 20, 2022May 19, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS

if there are two fearsome things lurking in the collective psyche of young Japanese minds today, it is surely having children, and moving to the countryside. Continue Reading ...

by Christopher Redpath • May 19, 2022May 6, 2022

Editor's Pick, Experimental Writing Issue, Story Sunday

Capital

—Have you been getting enough exercise? I know I always feel my best after playing 18 holes. Haha. I’ll tell you what I laughed about because even though your back ...

by Jeff Wesselschmidt • May 15, 2022May 11, 2022