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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]
MARY CONWAY is moved by a play of depth and originality that brings true insight into Van Gogh’s journey
GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
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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