MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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Letters from Latin America
Reviews of poetry and fiction from Juana Adcock, Cristina Rivera Garza, Richard Blanco and Mario Levrero
Spanglish specialist: Juana Adcock
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
NOT just a means of communication, Spanglish has been described by essayist Ilan Stavans as “either the marriage or the divorce between two languages, Spanish and English, that have been with each other and at each other for over 150 years, if not more.”
One of the its best literary practitioners is Latinx poet and translator Juana Adcock. Mexican-born and based in Glasgow, her recently published bilingual collection Manca (Argonautica) is a fierce and dazzling book exploring notions of violence, dislocation, the female body and what it means to write in various languages.
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