by Sally Lewis
Best of 2018: Books
by LEO BOIX
Socially aware: Carolina Sanin
[MacLehose Press] 
New releases from Max Richter, Julius Asal, and Jean-Michel Jarre
RON JACOBS applauds a reading of black history in the US that plots the path from autonomy to self-governance and then liberation
TOM KING relishes an enlightening history of the checkered progress of the war that humanity has waged on bacteria
ANDY HEDGECOCK is intrigued by a scholarly account of how systemic disinformation can exacerbate the perception of threat and foster hatred
New releases from Cuban pianist Aruan Ortiz, trumpeter Kenny Dorham, and London pianist Geoff Castle
THIS has been a year of outstanding fiction and poetry published in Britain from Latin America and Latinx writers.
Resistance by the Brazilian writer Julian Fuks (Charco Press) is a powerful and brilliantly written work that not only deals with the important issue of the “disappeared” during Argentina's dirty war from 1976 to 1982, it also focuses on personal and national memory, belonging, the different forms of exile and the enduring bond of brotherhood.
More from this author
A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin
LEO BOIX reviews a novella by Brazilian Ana Paula Maia, and poetry by Peruvian Giancarlo Huapaya, and Chilean Elvira Hernandez
LEO BOIX reviews a caustic novel of resistance and womanhood by Buenos Aires-born Lucia Lijtmaer, and an electrifying poetry collection by Chilean Vicente Huidobro
LEO BOIX salutes the revelation that British art has always had a queer pulse, long before the term became cultural currency
