MIRANDA RICHMOND relishes the gloriously liberated art of Roy Oxlade, and traces his method back to the thinking of David Bomberg, his acknowledged teacher
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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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MARTIN HALL examines the way the Roman orator took on different schools of philosophy
ALEX HALL is amused at the way the UFOs appear exactly where commercial interests, conspiracies, militarism and right-wing media overlap
ANDY HEDGECOCK is astonished by a portrait of contemporary Greece, complete with political protest, organised crime and people trafficking, told from the point of view of — wait for it — runaway poultry
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Eagles Of The Republic, The Balloonists, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, and Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War
TOMASZ PIERSCIONEK is intrigued by a the changing significance of its vast areas of forest to Russia’s history
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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