MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
In Other News
Helen Mort
They bring a woman’s body to the light
this morning, down my road, and match her
to the name the nightclub knew her by.
Caroline Everest. 18. Sunk in the river
off Summerfield Street. Today, the posters
can come down, her face and shoulders
taken from The Moor.
In the folded paper, Karla Jacinto, forced
to sleep with 30 men a day for 4 years
since her kidnapping in Tenancingo, Mexico,
her story carried on the stop-start bus
that ferries me towards the day, stalls
at Matilda Street. At the work function,
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