It is the story of one Yazidi girl’s fight to find her missing family members, and the revelation of the strength and determination of a young survivor as she reclaims her voice and future. A story is captured in a film that opens on 15 November in the United Kingdom […]
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Carmen Souza’s untold stories
They rise from the dust of pain, loss and chaos and are told in ‘Port’Inglês’, an album that has just been released and whose launch concert will take place on 30 November at Crazy Coqs in London. A deeply personal journey, stories of years of British presence in Cape Verde […]
Durán, Ecuador’s new crime capital
Durán, a municipality of over 300,000 inhabitants in Ecuador’s coastal Guayas province, has undergone a dramatic transformation from a thriving commercial center to a violent hub of criminal activity. Anastasia Austin* This shift reflects broader challenges facing Ecuador and offers critical insights into the complex interplay of social, […]
The anger of Marx
Reading Karl Marx’s “Capital” Volume 1, in English has until now verged on the gruelling, more a vocation than a pleasure. For too long, the most ready-to-hand edition has been the Penguin one, all 1141 pages of it, first published in 1976. Sean Sheehan Its small print gave it […]
Juan Rulfo, an omniscient narrator
There is a certain flavour of good in “the bad” as told by writers such as the Mexican, Juan Rulfo. And even more if, as he did, the texts are expressed through the code of magical realism (or marvellous reality). Antonio Paneque Brizuela “It was rare not to […]
















