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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
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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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
Review no 96: Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar
Political atrocities and poetry combine in the work of installation and video artist Alfredo Jaar
Review no 65: Art for lockdown: US artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
THE AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN I have long admired the work of acclaimed American artist Edward Hopper, probably most famous for his work Nighthawks. His life and work has been written about particularly evocatively by Olivia Laing in her book The Lonely City. That book talked about the effects of loneliness on creativity, and on …
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