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FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
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SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
The Jungle
By Michel Agier et al
(Polity, £15. 99p)
Between 2015 and 2016, when it was forcibly cleared, “The Jungle” accommodated thousands of migrants and refugees from the area surrounding the French port of Calais, most of them hoping to cross the channel to Britain.
The infamous camp attracted international expressions of solidarity, as NGOs and activists responded to the inhabitants’ experiences of hostile officialdom, fanned by politicians exploiting the situation for reasons of their own.
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