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Prince: Welcome 2 America review and my Top 7 Prince songs (USA)
AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN review no 181, by Imogen G I’ve been feeling for a while that it is more or less impossible to pick a “best” US musician, as (along with the UK) the USA has dominated popular music basically for ever, or certainly throughout my lifetime. Then I started listening to Welcome 2 …
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (b. Dominican Republic)
Critically-acclaimed, Pulitzer prize-winning novel of Oscar Wao, his family and the long arm of history
A Children’s Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet (USA)
An often acerbic dystopian novel by US author Lydia Millet
Talk to Me by T. C. Boyle (USA)
Book 11 of my #20booksofsummer, Review no 169 AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN Progress has slowed on the blog in recent weeks, as work has ramped up to crazy levels and I’ve been working till late every day, though some time off is in sight. I finished Talk to Me by T. C. Boyle a while …
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (USA): Review no 164
One of Anne Tyler’s most-loved novels
Poetry by Kei Miller: The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Jamaica): Review no 163
Kei Miller’s prize-winning poetry collection
Consent by Annabel Lyon (Canada)
Gripping, emotionally real tale of sibling responsibility
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
Reading and Watching the World: Books, Film and Art 