To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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Letters From Latin America
Reviews of fiction by Argentinean writers Andres Neuman and Samanta Schweblin and poetry collections from American Latinx poets Vincent Toro and Alberto Rios
DISTURBING VISION: Samanta Schewblin
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
FRACTURE (Granta, £14.99) is Argentinean writer Andres Neuman’s fifth book translated into English and his first novel since his acclaimed Talking To Ourselves, published in 2014.
A tale of love, personal tragedies and loss that spans many decades and continents, it tells the story of Yoshie Watanabe, survivor of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima nuclear disasters.
Taking the reader on a fascinating journey from the busy streets of Tokyo and bohemian Paris to New York’s Harlem, Buenos Aires, Madrid and back to Japan, it’s interspersed with Watanabe’s personal experiences after returning to Japan in 2011 following a long career abroad as an electronics executive, along with his memories of his previous female partners.
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