05 May 2016 The Hunger Gap Food for thought. by Neil Tidmarsh Have they gone too far this week? The pro-Russian separatists of Ukraine might have got away with the annexation of Crimea, they might have got away with establishing the breakaway peoples’ republics of Luhansk and Donetsk, but have they at last bitten off… Continue reading Issue 52:2016 05 05: The Hunger Gap (Neil Tidmarsh)
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Issue 32:2015 10 10:Week in Brief: International
10 December 2015 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL AFGHANISTAN: An argument among Taliban leaders escalated into a shoot-out in which four or five senior figures were killed (including the leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour) and more than a dozen wounded, according to government reports (but denied by the Taliban). The Afghan security forces – police and… Continue reading Issue 32:2015 10 10:Week in Brief: International
Issue 32: 2015 10 10: Exorcising magic realism
10 December 2015 Exorcising Magic Realism Cold reality for a hot continent by Neil Tidmarsh The world-class literature of Latin America is characterised by a refusal to accept the true nature of reality. Novelists such as Mexico’s Juan Rulfo, Colombia’s Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa, Argentina’s Jorge Louis Borges and many others have… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 10 10: Exorcising magic realism
