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Last words from a continental explorer
MICHAL BONCZA recommends the final collection of works by the great Eduardo Galeano
Revelatory: Eduardo Galeano
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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
Hunter of Stories
by Eduardo Galeano
(Constable £14.99)
IN LATIN America, time is measured before and after Eduardo Galeano’s book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.
A literary Pandora’s Box if ever there was one, it's a book that transformed the continent’s self-awareness by tearing down the veil of falsity drawn over its true history by bourgeois apologists.
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