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Letters from Latin America with Leo Boix: October 14, 2024
Mexican Yuri Herrera’s novel about Benito Juarez in New Orleans, and poetry by Mexican Fabio Morabito and Argentine Sergio Chejfec
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
BENITO JUAREZ, who, being of Zapotec origin, became Mexico’s first and only indigenous president in 1858 and the first democratically elected indigenous president in the postcolonial Americas, spent nearly 18 months in New Orleans in the early 1850s as a political exile.
Despite numerous historical accounts and his well-known autobiography, these 18 months in New Orleans were a mysterious void in the record.
What did Juarez do in the city soon after a major yellow fever epidemic swept through it? What did he see, and who did he meet ?
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