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 with Leo Boix: August 8, 2023
Reviews of Fresh Dirt From the Grave by Bolivian Giovanna Rivero, Forgotten Manuscript by Argentinian Sergio Chejfec, and Adjacent Islands by Puerto Rican Nicole Cecilia Delgado
Sergio Chejfe at "What makes a writer a writer" at "La Letra Argentina", Buenos Aires, November 7 2014
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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 American literature has seen an impressive renewal of the Gothic and fantastic genres in recent years.
Bolivian writer Giovanna Rivero is at the heart of that movement that also includes authors such as Argentinians Mariana Enriquez and Samanta Schweblin, the Peruvian novelist Gustavo Faveron Patriau, and Ecuadorian Monica Ojeda, to name but a few.
Rivero’s Fresh Dirt From the Grave (Charco Press, £11.99), translated from Spanish by Isabel Adey, is a masterfully crafted short story collection that fuses horror, sci-fi and social issues in equal measure.
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