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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
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
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.
Adcock delves frankly into some of the most pressing challenges facing Mexico today, including its growing violence and its deep-rooted social inequalities.
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A novel by Argentinian Jorge Consiglio, a personal dictionary by Uruguayan Ida Vitale, and poetry by Mexican Homero Aridjis
Travelogue/reportage by Argentinean Maria Sonia Cristoff, and poetry by Peruvian Gaston Fernandez and Puerto Rican Cristina Perez Diaz
A pamphlet by British Latinx poet Patrick Romero McCafferty, poetry by Anglo-Argentinian Miguel Cullen, and a book of conjuring poems by Mexican Pedro Serrano
LEO BOIX selects the best books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction written by Latinx and Latin American authors published this year
