MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Letters from Latin America: August 27, 2024
LEO BOIX reviews a noir novel featuring flies, a fumigation company and two female ex-convicts by Argentinian Claudia Pineiro, an anthology by contemporary Latin American writers and collections of poetry by Chilean Gabriela Mistral and Puerto Rican Irizelma Robles
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
“I SEE a fly. A fly doesn’t exist, fluttering in front of my left eye. And I like saying it that way, almost a declaration of principles; I, Ines Experey, see a fly.”
This is how Time of the Flies (Charco Press) by Argentinian writer Claudia Pineiro begins. The novel delves into female friendship, motherhood, and the boundaries of crime fiction, taking it to new heights.
It features flies in various forms and intersperses the main narrative with a chorus of female voices in the Greek tradition of Euripides’ Medea. These voices debate concepts of maternity, sexuality, human relationships and feminism.
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Travelogue/reportage by Argentinean Maria Sonia Cristoff, and poetry by Peruvian Gaston Fernandez and Puerto Rican Cristina Perez Diaz
LEO BOIX selects the best books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction written by Latinx and Latin American authors published this year