To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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Reviews of Fresh Dirt From the Grave by Bolivian Giovanna Rivero, Forgotten Manuscript by Argentinian Sergio Chejfec, and Adjacent Islands by Puerto Rican Nicole Cecilia Delgado
Sergio Chejfe at "What makes a writer a writer" at "La Letra Argentina", Buenos Aires, November 7 2014
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If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
LATIN American literature has seen an impressive renewal of the Gothic and fantastic genres in recent years.
Bolivian writer Giovanna Rivero is at the heart of that movement that also includes authors such as Argentinians Mariana Enriquez and Samanta Schweblin, the Peruvian novelist Gustavo Faveron Patriau, and Ecuadorian Monica Ojeda, to name but a few.
Rivero’s Fresh Dirt From the Grave (Charco Press, £11.99), translated from Spanish by Isabel Adey, is a masterfully crafted short story collection that fuses horror, sci-fi and social issues in equal measure.
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