alfway through Mexican author Elena Garro’s debut novel, Los recuerdos del porvenir, time stops dead. I don’t mean in some metaphorical sense, though it may feel that way due to the sudden boldness of the plot twist. No, I mean that Felipe Hurtado, the…
The Poisonwood Bible is a 1998 novel by Barbara Kingsolver, which tells the story of a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from the U.S. state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River.
n 1926 the government of Mexico passed two linked laws: the Law of Irrigation with Federal Waters and the Federal Colonization Law. One could see these as Mexican versions of the Bureau of Reclamation and the Homestead Act: The first created the Nation…
esbians, opera singers, and birch trees? Yes. Mulholland Drive, monsters, and Mozart’s Magic Flute? Absolutely. The bilingual writer and translator Sophie Strohmeier strikes all the right dissonant chords in All Girls Be Mine Alone (Joyland Editions, 2…
Percival Everett’s gleeful reboot of Mark Twain puts the enslaved Jim centre stage in a horrifying, painful and funny novel
The gloriously strange follow-up to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is more than worth the lengthy wait.
