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While many writers avoided COVID-19 even in their novels, others explored this topic in various genres such as satire, historical fiction, and romantic comedy.

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Book Reviews With The Wind That Lays Waste, Almada may have invented an entirely new literary genre, something that could be called Southern Cone Gothic. Reviewed by David Frier A new anthology collects a wide range of writing inspired by the Portuguese city, from Fernando Pessoa and José Saramago to authors from former colonies like Kalaf Angelo and Orlanda Amarílis, but it leaves out some key short-story writers. Reviewed by Craig Epplin The Spanish author and Man Booker International nominee elides the distance between novel and memoir in a book that confronts the killing of her grandfa...

EMPTY HOUSES (Daunt Books, £9.99), Mexican writer Brenda Navarro’s first novel, is the devastating story of a mother who loses her small child in a playground somewhere in Mexico and her relentless search to find him. It is also the story of a working-class woman who has kidnapped the  child in order to fulfil her maternal desires and, fittingly,  the chapters begin with epigraphs from the work of Polish poet Wisława Szymborska that set the tone for what it is yet to come. The narrative alternates between the harrowing stories of these two desperate woman as they try to make sense of mo...