RON JACOBS applauds a reading of black history in the US that plots the path from autonomy to self-governance and then liberation
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Letters From Latin America: December 4, 2022
LEO BOIX reviews of Temporary Archives: Poems by Women of Latin America, Ten Planets by Mexican Yuri Herrera, Voyager, Constellations of Memory by Chilean Nona Fernandez
TOM KING relishes an enlightening history of the checkered progress of the war that humanity has waged on bacteria
ANDY HEDGECOCK is intrigued by a scholarly account of how systemic disinformation can exacerbate the perception of threat and foster hatred
New releases from Cuban pianist Aruan Ortiz, trumpeter Kenny Dorham, and London pianist Geoff Castle
GORDON PARSONS is blown away by a superb production of Rostand’s comedy of verbal panache and swordmanship
WILL STONE applauds a comprehensive survey of love in its many moods and musical forms
LATIN AMERICA is a vast region of many cultures, peoples, histories and languages that defy all categorisations and resists simplifications.
Temporary Archives: Poems by Women of Latin America (bilingual), edited by Juana Adcock and Jessica Pujol Duran (Arc Publications, £14.39) brings together a generation of interesting 24 contemporary women poets from the region.
It includes poems originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, Zoque, Quechua and other indigenous languages, making this project an outstanding translation enterprise.
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