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Gabriel Garcia Ochoa

The Winterlings by Cristina Sánchez-Andrade, translated by Samuel Rutter

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December 2016, no. 387
Gabriel García Ochoa reviews 'The Winterlings' by Cristina Sánchez-Andrade and translated by Samuel Rutter

The village of Tierra de Chá in Cristina Sánchez-Andrade’s novel The Winterlings feels a bit like Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo, without the magic realism. It is a small community riddled with family secrets, desiccated aspirations, incest, and regrets. Located in Galicia, in north-western Spain, Tierra de Chá is full of succulent characters. Th ...

The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes ushered in the modern world by William Egginton

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November 2016, no. 386
Gabriel García Ochoa reviews 'The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes ushered in the modern world' by William Egginton

The four-hundredth anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes’s death serves as a good reminder of the influence and importance of his oeuvre, and perhaps too of our strange obsession with ...

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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (Art Gallery of New South Wales)

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19 September 2016
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (Art Gallery of New South Wales)

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are, without a doubt, the two most famous Mexican artists of the twentieth century, as notorious for their scandalous relationship and political views as they were for their creative genius. She was twenty-one years younger than him; he was a communist ...

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