GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Letters From Latin America: July 28, 2022
LEO BOIX reviews fiction by Argentinian Ariana Harwicz and Colombian Cristina Bendek, and poetry collections by Bolivian Rocio Agreda Pierola and Anglo-Argentine Miguel Cullen
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
SALT CRYSTALS (Charco Press, £11.99) is Cristina Bendek debut novel.
The book, flawlessly translated by Robyn Myers, recounts the story of Victoria Baruq, a young woman of mixed Raizal (Afro-Caribbeans from the Colombian archipelago of San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina) and Lebanese ancestry, who has lived for several years in Mexico City.
She decides to return to San Andres, her birthplace, after the sudden death of both her parents.
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