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Tag Archives: USA
Book Review: Under a Rock by Chris Stein (USA)
Rock autobiography by Blondie guitarist Chris Stein
Book Review: Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (USA)
Classic memoir and travelogue dealing with the author’s year-long jaunt on a finding herself mission. And why not!
Book Review: Intimacies by Katie Kitamura (USA)
A novel of dislocation, ambiguity, interpretation and evil, set in The Hague, the home of the International Criminal Court
All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art by Patrick Bringley (USA)
A memoir of a museum guide that is full of fascinating insights into both art and an often overlooked profession
Film review: Moonlight (USA)
Beautiful, immersive, Oscar-winning coming of age tale
Passing by Nella Larsen (USA)
A 1929 novel focusing on ambiguous racial identity, that has surely inspired Brit Bennett’s bestselling 2020 novel ‘The Vanishing Half’
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (USA)
Women’s Prize shortlister set in and around a haunted bookshop
Book review: Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg by Emily Rapp Black (USA)
Fierce and fearless meditation on disabled identity, art, love and loss
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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