No excuses can hide the criminal actions of a Nazi fellow-traveller in this admirably objective documentary, suggests MARTIN HALL
Letters from Latin America with Leo Boix: June 2, 2024
Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo, Afro-Colombian writer Velia Vidal, and an anthology of Latin American writers decolonising the written archives of the British Museum
PAUL DONOVAN relishes a fascinating exploration of the leading lights of the Labour right in the 1970s
BEN LUNN alerts us to the creeping return of philanthropy and private patronage, and suggests alternative paths to explore
A novel by Argentinian Jorge Consiglio, a personal dictionary by Uruguayan Ida Vitale, and poetry by Mexican Homero Aridjis
MIK SABIERS savours the first headline solo show of the stalwart of Brighton’s indie-punk outfit Blood Red Shoes
New releases reviewed by IAN SINCLAIR
STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
WE WILL NOT BE SAVED (Wildfire, £20) by Waorani leader and activist Nemonte Nenquimo begins with the story of a young girl and her brother Victor hearing the sound of a small plane descending to a patch of land in their remote community of Tonampare, located in the Yasuni National Park in the heart of the Amazon.
The book shares the inspiring and courageous story of Nemonte and her people, the Waorani, a tribe of around 5,000 hunter-gatherers who have faced violence from state and corporate entities, especially big oil corporations like Texaco and Repsol.
It also details the abuse suffered by the Waorani at the hands of a US missionary named Rachel Saint, who attempted to force the community to convert to Catholicism and used her power to help “God-followers” — oil businessmen — exploit and destroy the ancestral lands of the Waorani.
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LEO BOIX selects the best books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction written by Latinx and Latin American authors published this year
From Argentina, a novel by Federico Falco and a collection of chronicles by Hebe Uhart; and poetry by Belarusian-Argentinean Natalia Litvinova, and Chilean Vicente Huidobro
Short stories by Bolivian Liliana Colanzi, a novel by Mexican Mateo Garcia Elizondo, and epic poetry by Nicaraguan Pablo Antonio Cuadra