GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
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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
After The Winter
by Guadalupe Nettel
(Maclehose Press, £14.99)
IN AFTER the Winter, Mexican writer Guadalupe Nettel attempts to answer some big questions. What does it mean to live as a Latin American in exile? What binds these experiences together, if at all? How is this diaspora understood and recounted in a modern age of globalisation and mass migration?
In a powerful story, exquisitely translated by Rosalind Harvey, Nettel engagingly charts the tribulations of Cecilia, a shy young Mexican woman from Oaxaca who decides to move to Paris to finish a thesis on Latin American literature and Claudio, a Cuban exiled from Old Havana, who works in publishing.
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