Reviews of Habibi Funk 031, Kayatibu, and The Good Ones
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Fiction: Baleful beauty in riveting stories by up-and-coming Guatemalan writer
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
Trout, Belly Up by Rodrigo Fuentes
(Charco Press, £8,99)
GUATEMALA, Honduras and El Salvador — the so-called Northern Triangle of Central America — are countries enduring a wave of violence and crime resulting in some three million people having to rely on humanitarian assistance.
Hundreds of thousands have been internally displaced and many more have left their countries to escape the brutality — murder, kidnapping and extortion are the norm — and poverty.
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