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‘The coup and Pinochet's dictatorship left a giant wound in the Chilean psyche that still has not healed’
CHRIS SEARLE interviews the pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn, on the release of her album to Chile
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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
HOW did a pedal steel guitar virtuoso who grew up playing country and western music in Texas, embrace the ordeal and struggle of the people of Chile? It is a story well worth telling, and expressed in her latest album, the beautiful and moving Canto.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1953, Susan Alcorn’s mother was a classical music lover who sang with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, her father a talented mime-artist.
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