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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Letters From Latin America: February 14, 2022
Reviews of fiction by Nona Fernandez, short stories by Caio Fernando Abreu and poetry by Martin Rangel
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
IN THE aftermath of the bloody coup d’etat of September 1973 by general Augusto Pinochet against Chile’s democratically elected government of president Salvador Allende nearly 40,000 people were illegally detained and/or tortured in Chile and more than 3,000 were murdered or disappeared.
Chilean author Nona Fernandez’s masterful The Twilight Zone (Daunt Book Originals, £9.99) is a devastating attempt at giving voice to those victims of Pinochet’s regime.
Fernandez employs Rod Serling’s influential television series The Twilight Zone as one of the novel’s thematic nuclei. The book is divided into four sections or “zones,” where each character ends up dealing with often disturbing or unusual events. In each case, the experience is described as entering “the Twilight Zone,” often with a surprise ending or a point.
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