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“New evidence suggests that the period between the years 1748 and 1804 — a time of great political upheaval, often referred to as the Age of Revolution — experienced climate fluctuations consistent with what we know today as the El Niño and La Niña cycles . . . Johnson is curious whether the Age of Revolution’s apparent political instability and its extreme weather patterns are purely coincidental — and if not, how they are connected within the geographic area she studies.” |
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“Mira, guapo, I have something for you. I have tucked it here, close to my heart. Don’t be tímido, voilà! Choose a packet. Well, take it out; tetas don’t bite . . .” |
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“The att**ude of Barbadian Sheena Rose’s Too Much Make-Up II (2013) on the front cover and the peek-a-boo of fellow Barbadian Ewan Atkinson’s Bubalups/Mother Sally: Private Audition (2013) on the inside cover index the spirit of what follows. These works are not shy, they are not polite. They confront, they shock, they play, stretching the concept of the self, through the other and beyond.” |
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“The novel’s real purpose is to invert Descartes’s Discourse on Method. While the French philosopher rigorously argued that the first principle of philosophy was the rational self, in Carpentier’s novel this self has become a voluble erotomane given over to language which is ‘luxuriant, sonorous, baroque, Ciceronian, original in imagery, implacable in epithets, sweeping in its crescendos.’” |
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“Mala Mala follows nine transs***ual or transgender individuals, each with vastly different opinions and experiences, forming a group that is far from homogenous . . . One must also consider the central location of the film, Puerto Rico: a country whose diffuse political status of ‘free a***ociated state’ keeps it in permanent transition.” |
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“You get to Miami from Jamaica by crowding aboard a brushed-metal pipe outf****ed with clumsy appendages and pretending that it was right-minded and Christian to sit with strangers thirty thousand feet up in the breeze as if beneath your feet was the comforting solidity of God’s good ground. Or so it struck Precious Higginson, who on the roaring and quivering take-off of her flight muttered a prayer aloud that drew an inquisitive stare from the businessman sitting next to her.” |
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“One hundred years hence, or even less, what injustices and atrocities will we be taught to forget? What new myths will we repeat to ourselves? Will there be new empires for our loyalties, new Americas for our yearnings, new Panamas for our earnings? Or will we remain as we have been for so long, two hundred to three hundred thousand souls with big dreams on a small rock?” |
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“In seeking out her great-grandmother and the thousands of women who left India to labour abroad, Bahadur discovers that only some narratives can be found. Others, however, can only begin and end in question marks. She knows such punctuation invites the reader into a moment of pause — of awe, of horror, of wonder.” |
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Zombie occupation |
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The Garden |
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What’s in a name |
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Man for all seasons |
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Taking note |
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