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Tag: Mexico

Five new queer films to add to your watchlist

My pick of the recent Melbourne Queer Film Festival.

Film, France, Germany, Israel, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Mexico, Movies, queer

Review: Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend

The Fifth Sun is a fascinating, scholarly and moving portrayal of a people surviving colonisation.

Aztecs, History, Mexico, Nonfiction

Review: Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral

These are brutal, bruised poems, like desert storms, lit with lightning strokes of beauty.

LGBTIQ, Mexico, Migrants, Poetry, queer, US

Review: Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (translated by Sophie Hughes)

A brutal tale of murder, sex and witchcraft set in the steamy coastal plains of Mexico.

Contemporary, Fiction, Man Booker International, Mexico, Novel, Translation

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The second of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels picks up immediately where the first left off, back at the wedding of the brilliant Lila Cerullo to grocer and neighbourhood businessman Stefano Carracci. What follows is a more sprawling but also more contained story, following Lila and narrator Lenu through Lila’s marriage and Lenu’s studies in their early twenties.
Ali Smith is done. At the beginning of this *cough* companion piece to her recent Seasonal Quartet, narrator and artist Sand is bummed out and in isolation, even bored with puns and wordplay (Ali Smith without puns and wordplay!?). It’s 2021 in the UK and lockdown is over but people are still dying by the hundreds.
This collection of blistering poetry takes the term to ‘take care’ and finds violence hidden inside. Eunice Andrada investigates ‘taking’ in all its forms: patriarchy and misogyny, capitalism and globalisation, ecocide and colonisation.
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