BARBARA BOSWELL remembers South African poet, storyteller, publisher, editor and activist Diana Ferrus (1953-2026)
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HELEN VASSALLO recommends a gripping Argentinian crime story about gender violence and the weaponisation of religion
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When the ravages of Alzheimer’s leave an elderly woman marooned in painful memories of October 1950, her grandchild comes up with a creative strategy.
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SUE TURNER is compelled by a history that shows how far a country can turn in on itself to collude with abuses of power
RON JACOBS is persuaded by the parallel drawn between Charles Manson and Donald Trump
EFA SUPERTRAMP is perhaps best known to many as half of electronic-punk outfit Killdren, who found themselves in the middle of a media storm for their song Kill Tory Scum (Before They Kill You).
The track, which saw the duo dropped from last year’s Glastonbury lineup, proved to the London-based
musician that music still has the power to shock. But it came as a surprise, she says, “because you think everything’s been done.”
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