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Worlds Apart

Nicholas Spice, 6 March 1986

Kiss of the Spider Woman 
by Manuel Puig, translated by Thomas Colchie.
Arena, 281 pp., £2.95, January 1986, 0 09 934200 6
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Back in the World 
by Tobias Wolff.
Cape, 221 pp., £8.95, January 1986, 0 224 02343 8
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... in a more complicated way than women. And this will be true in Britain no less than in Argentina, Puig’s country and the country where Molina and Valentin sit incarcerated. For British heterosexual men do not kiss one another. In fact, I know of no country where men kiss one another less. We don’t even go in for the ritual bear hug, or the peck on the ...

Rambo v. Rimbaud

Emily Witt: On Justin Torres, 4 April 2024

Blackouts 
by Justin Torres.
Granta, 305 pp., £14.99, November 2023, 978 1 84708 397 5
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... the narrator responds. Juan also admonishes him for not having read the Argentinian novelist Manuel Puig or the Puerto Rican playwright Miguel Piñero. ‘You really ought to know your fairy forefathers,’ Juan says. ‘What will you do when you bump into these eminent maricones in hell?’ At the end of the book, before an appendix, Torres ...

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