Tag: Manuel Puig

Ashes and stars: A posthumous love story

It is here where the dead rise palpably and in beautiful costumes and choreography, to jiggle their bones and have discourse with those who mourn them. Frida takes the whole of the first act to be convinced to visit her Diego, who wasn’t all that gentle while she was alive.

Letters from the edge

Myra Egdes’s ‘The Goldfish Bowl and Other Stories’ is a kind of ‘sowing of wild oats’ series of moments for young women, and in being so, it offers a rich slice of life that comments on the world and the implicit sense of protection for young travellers from South Africa.