SIMON PARSONS applauds an original, visual and movement-based take on the birth and death of a relationship
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Telling tales of strangers in strange lands
LEO BOIX recommends an excellent collection of stories about the Latino experience of migration
The Peruvian Andes
[Latin America For Less/Creative Commons]
JOHN GREEN’s palette is tickled by useful information leavened by amusing and unusual anecdotes, incidental gossip and scare stories
The bard contemplates X — anti-human vomit soup with dog shit croutons — and the Tory recycling bin that is Reform
ALAN MORRISON recommends an outstanding and timely anthology of poems that reflect the experience and consequences of African migration
BINOY KAMPMARK examines the food racket as evidenced by the recent promotion of Italian cuisine to the status of ‘intangible national heritage’
FIONA O’CONNOR and MARIA DUARTE review State of Statelessness, Rental Family, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and The Rip
The King Is Always Above the People
By Daniel Alarcon
(Fourth Estate, £8.99)
IN HIS Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, Edward W Said argues that migration is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home, whose “essential sadness can never be surmounted.”
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