A work of fictional non-fiction that captivated even this physics-averse reader
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Wars of the Interior by Joseph Zárate (Peru): Review no 150
A call for action to curb the ill-use of both people and the natural world in Peru.
Review no 138: The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross (Grenada)
A well-regarded work of Caribbean crime fiction
Review no 121: Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan
Bahamian conceptual artist Tavares Strachan is helping to redraw some of the omissions of history
Review no 116: The Transmigration of Bodies by Mexican author Yuri Herrera
AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN Translated by Lisa Dillman This novella, first published in 2013, and published in English translation by And Other Stories in 2016, comes in at barely 100 pages, so I was able to read it in a single day. Set during a mysterious mosquito-borne pandemic, I found it to be a comically …
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Review no 111: artist Alberta Whittle (Barbados)
AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tate Britain awarded a Turner Prize bursary award to 10 artists, including Barbados-born artist Alberta Whittle, in place of the normal Turner Prize. She is a previous recipient of the Margaret Tait Award and this year also won the Frieze Artist Award for a …
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Review no 109: The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka (Venezuela)
Mordantly humorous and thoughtful short novel from a Venezuelan writer
Reading and Watching the World: Books, Film and Art 