Reviews

A writer navigating her mother's death while falling into a new love affair. Sara Torres's autofiction questions how we mourn and love.

As far-right governments ramp up denialist narrative, film directors in Argentina, Chile and Brazil often set their stories in the period of the dictatorships

What does it truly mean to be a feminist? La Lucha is more than just a recounting of suffering at the hands of misogyny. It is a pledge to fight, an act of struggle in the long and varied feminist canon that continues to flourish across the world and that is so often under attack.

Apparitions can be read as many things: a tribute to women’s sexual emancipation; a cautionary tale of the disintegration of patriarchal family structures; even a meditation on the brutality of the Catholic Church and its frenzied devotees.

Sue Branford reviews Alex Ungrateeb Flynn's book Pathways to Utopia - Time and Transformation in the Landless Workers' Movement of Brazil.

Jasmine Haniff reviews Alex Ungprateeb Flynn’s book about Brazil’s landless worker’s movement, which offers a compelling framework for understanding how a social movement can develop an alternative collective future, through decades of grassroots struggle.

ATRATO by Juan Covelli runs until 22 February 2026 at the V&A Photography Centre in South Kensington, London. Admission is free.

Marcos Colón reviews the Cannes and Golden Globe award-winning Brazilian film The Secret Agent, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, starring Wagner Moura. The film engages questions of state censorship, political repression, and surveillance not by following a reporter chasing a story, but, this time, by following a man hunted by a system terrified of memory.

'What The Congress of the Disappeared ultimately shows us is that Brazil is a nation that has never truly reconciled with its past. Now...

In her latest project COST, Monica Perez unravels the thread between England and Uruguay, exploring the raw wool trade and the displacement and erasure of Indigenous communities.