Gripping, emotionally real tale of sibling responsibility
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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 121: Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan
Bahamian conceptual artist Tavares Strachan is helping to redraw some of the omissions of history
Review no 96: Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar
Political atrocities and poetry combine in the work of installation and video artist Alfredo Jaar
Review no 93: Margarita Cabrera – Mexican artist
political artist Margarita Cabrera
Review no 89: When Time Stopped – A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann (Venezuela)
A brilliant memoir of a woman’s research into her father’s incredible story of bravery and survival
Review no 88: Artist Frank Bowling (Guyana)
Abstract artist Frank Bowling
Review no 84: Golden Child by Claire Adam (Trinidad and Tobago)
Thought-provoking and moving examination of poverty and parental ambition, which unspools with page-turning intensity
Review no 79: Kiss of the Spider Woman – book by Manuel Puig (Argentina)
Entertaining, multi-layered 1970s Latin American tale, set in an Argentinian prison
Review no 72: Gloria: film by Sebastián Lelio (Chile)
AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN Gloria was released in 2013, and is co-written and directed by Sebastián Lelio. The movie tells the story of a late middle-aged woman who embarks on a conflicted romance with an older man. She’s feeling lonely – her children are independent, although you have the sense that their lives are not …
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