ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
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Letters from Latin America: August 27, 2024
LEO BOIX reviews a noir novel featuring flies, a fumigation company and two female ex-convicts by Argentinian Claudia Pineiro, an anthology by contemporary Latin American writers and collections of poetry by Chilean Gabriela Mistral and Puerto Rican Irizelma Robles
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
MICK McSHANE rubs shoulders with Mod legend Steve Craddock and joins in with the joyous Glasgow choir
DENNIS BROE sifts out the ideological bias of the newest TV series offerings, and picks out what to see, and what to avoid
“I SEE a fly. A fly doesn’t exist, fluttering in front of my left eye. And I like saying it that way, almost a declaration of principles; I, Ines Experey, see a fly.”
This is how Time of the Flies (Charco Press) by Argentinian writer Claudia Pineiro begins. The novel delves into female friendship, motherhood, and the boundaries of crime fiction, taking it to new heights.
It features flies in various forms and intersperses the main narrative with a chorus of female voices in the Greek tradition of Euripides’ Medea. These voices debate concepts of maternity, sexuality, human relationships and feminism.
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