Mexico City
Haunting images: The Shadow of the Object, by Chloe Aridjis, reviewed
With its eerie slides portraying the long dead, a magic lantern becomes a focus for the novel’s understated meditation on mortality
Courage and humour in the face of unimaginable grief
Miriam Toews meditates on suicide, silence and the messiness of survival as she attempts to answer the question: ‘Why Do I Write’?
A death foretold
In March 2014 Gabriel García Márquez went down with a cold. The man who wrote beautifully about ageing was approaching…
Reds under the beds
Leon Trotsky’s grandson, Esteban Volkov, is a retired chemist in his early eighties. I met him not long ago in…
