ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Telling tales of strangers in strange lands
LEO BOIX recommends an excellent collection of stories about the Latino experience of migration
The Peruvian Andes
[Latin America For Less/Creative Commons]
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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
The King Is Always Above the People
By Daniel Alarcon
(Fourth Estate, £8.99)
IN HIS Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, Edward W Said argues that migration is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home, whose “essential sadness can never be surmounted.”
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