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Patricio Guzmán obituary
Hawker Hunter jets bomb the presidential palace in the Chilean capital, Santiago, setting it ablaze. It is 11 September 1973, and General Augusto Pinochet’s bloody coup against Salvador Allende’s socialist government is under way. These are the dramatic opening images of the documentary film trilogy La Batalla de Chile (The Battle of Chile), directed by Patricio Guzmán.
Program: When Castro dies
America has plans for Cuba after Castro, including the use of Guantanamo Bay. In Cuba, many people believe their world will not change. Others say it must, and are preparing for dangerous times. In Miami, exiled Cuban business people, and the US government wait for their day. From the BBC, Nick Caistor. Please note: Copyright restrictions prevent Radio National from providing a downloadable MP3.
Haiti: the end of Hotel Oloffson
The Hotel Oloffson, one of the Haitian capital’s most iconic buildings, was burned down on July 6 2025, reportedly by one of the armed gangs that now control most of Port-au-Prince. The Oloffson, with its distinctive ‘gingerbread’ latticed wooden architecture, tropical gardens and swimming pool, was a legendary haven in the centre of the city. Just a few minutes’ walk from the Champ de Mars and the presidential palace, the hotel had a long and colourful history.
José ‘Pepe’ Mujica obituary
On 8 October 1969, a band of guerrillas disguised as mourners in a funeral procession marched into the small Uruguayan town of Pando. They took over the police station, the town hall and the telephone exchange, then robbed several banks, before being confronted by the armed forces and driven out. Five people were killed, including a civilian.
Alberto Fujimori obituary
Few people in Peru had heard of Alberto Fujimori, an agricultural engineer and university rector, when he stood for the presidency in 1989. In the runoff he faced the internationally renowned novelist turned politician Mario Vargas Llosa, who was expected to win. However, Peru is a divided society, and poorer, indigenous voters regarded Vargas Llosa as part of the elite, out of touch with ordinary Peruvians, and Fujimori as more likely to understand their concerns.
The best books on refugees, inclusion, diversity & equality
I found myself involved with the characters and came to care for them. Moreover, I was struck by the author's desire to inspire readers to encourage discussion of Afghanistan and so keep the nation in the wider public consciousness.
BLACK WOLF | Kirkus Reviews
A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006). A zombie apocalypse is one thing.
Fernando Botero Angulo, Painter and Sculptor (19 Apr 1932 - 15 Sep 2023)
15 Apr 2023 – The rotund, colourful men and women painted and sculpted by Fernando Botero, who has died aged 91, made him perhaps the most popular Latin American artist of his generation and also one of the most commercially successful. For years, art critics looked down on what the Colombian himself called his “fat people”, dismissing them as a trademark gimmick. But museums and collectors (including Hollywood celebrities such as Jack Nicholson and Sylvester Stallone) snapped them up.
Edith Grossman obituary
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ReadPlus - The night travellers
Translated by Nick Caistor and Faye Williams. Simon & Schuster, 2023. ISBN: 9781761104718. (Age: 15+) Highly recommended. Imagine the heartbreak of giving up your child to ensure their safety. In The night travellers this happens not once but twice, over separate generations. Ally Keller is the mother of a ‘mischling’ child – Lilith’s father is black, an African German, in the time of the Nazi idea of eugenics and Aryan purity, and so is at risk of sterilisation at the age of seven.
BETTY BOO by CLAUDIA PIÑEIRO / Bitter Lemon Press 2016.
Welcome to 21st century Buenos Aires. The rich and privileged live in gated communities outside the city, like the one in this novel, tellingly named La Maravillosa. To protect themselves, they have increasingly absurd levels of security for the house owners, their visitors, and of course the cleaners and others who come to service their needs.
'Reputations' by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, translated by Anne McLean (Bloomsbury)
Javier Mallarino is Colombia’s most celebrated political cartoonist. Every day for 40 years his caricatures have punctured the reputations of politicians, generals, drug dealers. As a good journalist, he knows it is his job to speak truth to power, whatever the consequences. At the outset of the novel, we see him in downtown Bogotá, aged 65, on his way to receive the country’s highest accolade for his work over the years.
LatinoLife's Guide to the Latin American Classics
Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) and Amor en los tiempos de cholera(Love in a Time of Cholera) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez So difficult to choose from the wonderful novels of Clombia’s most famous novelist, the master of modern magical realism, that we've chose two.
Argentina's Bi-Centenary: Something to Celebrate?
As many as a million Argentines flocked to the main avenue in the centre of Buenos Aires to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the start of Argentina’s fight for independence from Spain. Many though were wondering exactly what there was to celebrate. Their current political leaders are not setting much of an example.
Top 10 Contemporary Classic Fiction
1. Discanccia de Rescate (Fever Dream) by Samanta Schweblin An Ecological dystopia that seems prophetic from a young Argentine writer. A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He’s not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family.
Peru: Women of Influence
LAB’s Nick Caistor interviewed two women from the Ashaninki people of Junín, in the Peruvian Amazon, when they came to the University of East Anglia to showcase five short films they had made as part of a Women of Influence project. ‘This government is deliberately killing peaceful protestors. They say we’re doing it by fighting among ourselves, but that’s not true.’ The speaker is Karen, from the Ashaninki indigenous people who have lived in the Peruvian Amazon region for thousands of years.
Mexico Inside Out
Nick Caistor Nick Caistor is a British writer and translator who has visited Mexico regularly for more than 40 years. A former BBC Latin America analyst, he has written books on the history and culture of Mexico City, and the Meixcan poet Octavio Paz.
Washington Independent Review of Books
By Andrés Neuman; translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia Farrar, Straus and Giroux 368 pp. Reviewed by Mariko Hewer May 29, 2021 Reading Andrés Neuman’s nostalgic Fracture, which centers partly on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, could be a fraught experience during a pandemic — and, indeed, many of the main characters’ convoluted feelings are likely to resonate with, and unsettle, the reader. The author’s skill, however, makes this compelling story well worth the emotional investment.
The Legacy of the Bones
October 6, 2016 Written by MarinaSofia Published in iBook, Kindle, Print, Reviews Permalink Written by Dolores Redondo, translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia — Just how many secrets is it possible to have in one family? Well, if it’s Spanish author Dolores Redondo’s Baztan Trilogy, it appears the answer is very many indeed.
Washington Independent Review of Books
Summer of Reckoning by Marion Brunet; translated by Katherine Gregor (Bitter Lemon Press). Reviewed by Penny Zang. “The setting, summertime Provence — more specifically, the Luberon region, full of lavender fields and hilltop villages — may sound idyllic and quaint, but it is only so for tourists. Céline, Jo, and their parents, Manuel and Severine, live in a world much less charming. In a book without a clear hero, antagonists are easy to find.
Washington Independent Review of Books
Reading Andrés Neuman’s nostalgic Fracture, which centers partly on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, could be a fraught experience during a pandemic — and, indeed, many of the main characters’ convoluted feelings are likely to resonate with, and unsettle, the reader. The author’s skill, however, makes this compelling story well worth the emotional investment.
THE LAUNDRESS | Kirkus Reviews
An ever growing list of worries, from a brother with drug problems to a climate change apocalypse, dances through the lively mind of a university librarian. In its clever and seductive replication of the inner monologue of a woman living in this particular moment in history, Offill’s (Dept. of Speculation, 2014, etc.) third novel might be thought of as a more laconic cousin of Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport.
THE OPERATOR | Kirkus Reviews
An ever growing list of worries, from a brother with drug problems to a climate change apocalypse, dances through the lively mind of a university librarian. In its clever and seductive replication of the inner monologue of a woman living in this particular moment in history, Offill’s (Dept. of Speculation, 2014, etc.) third novel might be thought of as a more laconic cousin of Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport.
Ernesto Cardenal obituary
Photograph: Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters In 1983 ministers of the revolutionary Sandinista government lined up on the tarmac to welcome Pope John Paul II on his first visit to Nicaragua. Moments later, TV cameras showed the pontiff wagging a finger at the kneeling Ernesto Cardenal, priest and minister of culture, admonishing him for mixing religion and politics. But for Cardenal, who has died aged 95, there was no distinction between the two.
GLASTONBURY | Kirkus Reviews
An ever growing list of worries, from a brother with drug problems to a climate change apocalypse, dances through the lively mind of a university librarian. In its clever and seductive replication of the inner monologue of a woman living in this particular moment in history, Offill’s (Dept. of Speculation, 2014, etc.) third novel might be thought of as a more laconic cousin of Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport.
ROXY | Kirkus Reviews
Sudden catastrophe brings bewilderment and wild swerves of direction to a troubled and troubling young widow. Roxy Rombouts, 30 years younger than her film-producer husband, Arthur, immediately assumes the worst when she finds two policemen on her doorstep in the middle of the night, and she’s right to do so. Not only has Arthur been killed in a car accident, but so has his young female intern, and both were naked, parked on the hard shoulder.
THE TOWN OF WHISPERING DOLLS
by Kiley Reid ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 7, 2020 The relationship between a privileged white mom and her black babysitter is strained by race-related complications. Blogger/role model/inspirational speaker Alix Chamberlain is none too happy about moving from Manhattan to Philadelphia for her husband Peter's job as a TV newscaster.
COLLECTED STORIES
Forty superb stories by one of America’s most beloved (and best) fiction writers. Moore is a short story superstar, a wily wordsmith, an extraordinary empath. In a few short pages—sometimes in just a few words—she is able to evoke essentially everything about the characters she conjures: the early disappointments that have shaped them, the hunger for connection that propels them, the quippy wordplay that protects them, the ways they hold themselves back or get in their own ways.
SORRY FOR YOUR TROUBLE
by Kiley Reid ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 7, 2020 The relationship between a privileged white mom and her black babysitter is strained by race-related complications. Blogger/role model/inspirational speaker Alix Chamberlain is none too happy about moving from Manhattan to Philadelphia for her husband Peter's job as a TV newscaster.
VAGABLONDE | Kirkus Reviews
by Kiley Reid ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 7, 2020 The relationship between a privileged white mom and her black babysitter is strained by race-related complications. Blogger/role model/inspirational speaker Alix Chamberlain is none too happy about moving from Manhattan to Philadelphia for her husband Peter's job as a TV newscaster.
VANISHING | Kirkus Reviews
Five women must reckon with quietly unsettling shifts in their lives as they navigate unexpected changes. Set in the Northeast United States—Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York—novelist Emmons’ (Weather Woman, 2018, etc.) first short-story collection centers on women who are surprised by something in their lives. In "The Deed," an attorney and mother of young twins comes home to find a man in her house insisting he owns it, treating her like a confused person who should be pitied.
APEIROGON | Kirkus Reviews
by Kiley Reid ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 7, 2020 The relationship between a privileged white mom and her black babysitter is strained by race-related complications. Blogger/role model/inspirational speaker Alix Chamberlain is none too happy about moving from Manhattan to Philadelphia for her husband Peter's job as a TV newscaster.
SIRI, WHO AM I? | Kirkus Reviews
An FBI agent is determined to catch a man who bilks and murders wealthy women, but the chase goes slowly. Brown (Tailspin, 2018, etc.) has published 70 bestsellers, and this one employs her usual template of thriller spiked with romance. Its main character, Drex Easton, is an FBI agent in pursuit of a serial killer, but for him it’s personal. When he was a boy, his mother left him and his father for another man, Weston Graham.
THE DEVIL OF DOWNTOWN
An FBI agent is determined to catch a man who bilks and murders wealthy women, but the chase goes slowly. Brown (Tailspin, 2018, etc.) has published 70 bestsellers, and this one employs her usual template of thriller spiked with romance. Its main character, Drex Easton, is an FBI agent in pursuit of a serial killer, but for him it’s personal. When he was a boy, his mother left him and his father for another man, Weston Graham.
HEATHCLIFF REDUX
An ever growing list of worries, from a brother with drug problems to a climate change apocalypse, dances through the lively mind of a university librarian. In its clever and seductive replication of the inner monologue of a woman living in this particular moment in history, Offill’s (Dept. of Speculation, 2014, etc.) third novel might be thought of as a more laconic cousin of Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport.
Allende weaves tale of war, love and loss in 'Long Petal of the Sea'
Breaking News Worcester County teenager is state’s first pediatric flu death this year January 23, 2020 at 4:25 pm BOOK REVIEW “A LONG PETAL OF THE SEA” By Isabel Allende, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson (Ballantine Books, $28) Grade: A Love and war shape everything in Isabel Allende’s sweeping, splendid new novel, “A Long Petal of the Sea.” This is her best book in years, one she has poured all of her prodigious passion and talent into, perhaps because it...
WOMAN OF A FAR CASTLE
In this literary debut, a Western family’s dark past ensnares the lives of two Rhode Island sisters at the dawn of the 20th century. Clare Farnsworth, part of a famously well-off Newport family, has always been the difficult one. Eleanor, her older sister by six years, submitted to a marriage to a lawyer from a wealthy (if vaguely disreputable) family, but Clare insists on attending art school and quipping about the patriarchy. Needless to say, the two sisters don’t exactly get along.
WE OF THE FORSAKEN WORLD...
by Kiley Reid ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 7, 2020 The relationship between a privileged white mom and her black babysitter is strained by race-related complications. Blogger/role model/inspirational speaker Alix Chamberlain is none too happy about moving from Manhattan to Philadelphia for her husband Peter's job as a TV newscaster.
A LONG PETAL OF THE SEA
by Kiley Reid ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 7, 2020 The relationship between a privileged white mom and her black babysitter is strained by race-related complications. Blogger/role model/inspirational speaker Alix Chamberlain is none too happy about moving from Manhattan to Philadelphia for her husband Peter's job as a TV newscaster.
THE ICE CREAM MAN & OTHER STORIES
by Sam Pink ‧ RELEASE DATE: today Pink’s (The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas, 2018, etc.) latest book continues his eyes-wide-open exploration of the many underbellies of modern life. It's almost impossible to describe one of Pink’s books without relying on adjectives chronically overused to evoke a certain type of 21st-century voice-driven urban realism. His books are gritty, it’s true; also cynical, often vicious, funny in a wry, despairing sort of way.
THE NIGHT WATCHMAN
In this unhurried, kaleidoscopic story, the efforts of Native Americans to save their lands from being taken away by the U.S. government in the early 1950s come intimately, vividly to life. Erdrich’s grandfather Patrick Gourneau was part of the first generation born on the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota. As the chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in the mid-1950s, he had to use all the political savvy he could muster to dissuade Utah Sen. Arthur V.
BARN 8 | Kirkus Reviews
An ever growing list of worries, from a brother with drug problems to a climate change apocalypse, dances through the lively mind of a university librarian. In its clever and seductive replication of the inner monologue of a woman living in this particular moment in history, Offill’s (Dept. of Speculation, 2014, etc.) third novel might be thought of as a more laconic cousin of Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport.
BLACKWOOD | Kirkus Reviews
Still bearing psychological scars from his childhood, Colburn, a junkyard sculptor, confronts the traumatic past when he returns to his hometown of Red Bluff, Mississippi. In 1956, when he was a boy, Colburn's unloving father hung himself-an act the son not only witnessed, but also abetted.
A GOAN HOLIDAY | Kirkus Reviews
The reappearance of an old boyfriend complicates the failed marriage of two physicians—and raises many ghosts from the past—in this romantic mystery. For the first time in 11 years, Dr. Anjali Joshi finds herself back in Vagator in the coastal Indian state of Goa, where the famous beaches bring tourists from all over the world. She is here to check on her family’s medical clinic, which has been attracting some rumors of criminality.
A BLUE FOREST | Kirkus Reviews
An ever growing list of worries, from a brother with drug problems to a climate change apocalypse, dances through the lively mind of a university librarian. In its clever and seductive replication of the inner monologue of a woman living in this particular moment in history, Offill’s (Dept. of Speculation, 2014, etc.) third novel might be thought of as a more laconic cousin of Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport.
Mexico: AMLO’s first hundred days
Since taking office on 1 December 2018, president Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been a man in a hurry. Aged 65, he is said to get up every day at six, hold a daily press conference at seven, and then begin a twelve-hour day. At weekends, he flies off to one of Mexico’s 32 states to examine local projects and talk to the state governors.
Mexico's drugs gang 'death squad'
The Zetas drugs gang has been described as "the most formidable death squad" in Mexico. It is believed to have come into existence some seven years ago, when leaders of the Gulf cartel of illegal drugs traffickers took it on as their security network. The gang was called Los Zetas after the Mexican word for the letter 'z', as this was the radio call sign of one of their first leaders, former Mexican Special Forces Lieutenant Arturo Guzman Decena.
New Pope seeks to heal divisions in Latin America
A small bronze plaque on the pavement of a central avenue in Buenos Aires marks the spot where two French nuns working in Argentina were snatched by the security forces in 1977. The nuns, Leonie Duquet and Alice Domon, were never seen again. Like many thousands of Argentines, they were "disappeared" during the military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983 - in their case apparently because they were working for the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo human rights group.
Speculative Fiction in Translation: Cuba
Cuba has a long tradition of speculative fiction, but, unfortunately, much of it hasn’t yet been translated into English. Working to change that is Restless Books, with its exciting release of four (!!) works of Cuban SF in two years: Yoss’s A Planet for Rent and Agustín de Rojas’s A Legend of the Future in 2015, and Yoss’s Super Extra Grande and Rojas’s The Year 200 in 2016.
Chile: women challenging stereotypes
In a country dominated by males, especially in politics, four women are challenging the stereotypes in Chile. As well as Michelle Bachelet, now elected president for a second term, Carolina Tohá, Bárbara Figueroa and Melissa Sepúlveda occupy positions of power that could lead to many other Chilean women taking up the fight against gender inequality. This is all the more remarkable because Chile is ranked among the worst countries in terms of gender inequality in the region.
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