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A Children’s Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet (USA)
An often acerbic dystopian novel by US author Lydia Millet
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 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 107: On Time and Water by Andri Snaer Magnason (Iceland)
Uncomfortable read on climate change in Iceland and the likelihood of impending environmental disaster
Review no 97: Honeyland (film from North Macedonia)
Intimate film about the delicate symbiosis of a North Macedonian ecosytem and one of Europe’s last wild bee keepers
Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More 