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Buying Aubergines from Tesco Extra, Rotherham, the Day After a Race Riot at the Holiday Inn in Manvers
by Matthew Paul
Pro-immigration supporters outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, August 4, 2024
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
Aubergine the internet tells me
means ‘fruit of the eggplant’
from the French
from the Catalan alberginera
from the Arabic al-badinjan
from the Persian badin-gan
from the Sanskrit vatigagama.
I think of this while three aubergines
cosy up to one another
in the metal basket I’m carrying
in a daze along the ‘World Foods’ aisle.
I think about this too while everyone
in the shop carries on as though
attempted lynchings of asylum-seekers
up the road didn’t actually happen.
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