Nicholas Taylor-Collins in front of a bookshelf

Nicholas Taylor-Collins

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  • The beyond: ‘Night Boat to Tangier’ by Kevin Barry

    The Moroccan port city of Tangier nowadays conjures images of refugees and migrants preparing to cross the Strait of Gibraltar from Africa’s northernmost country, Morocco, to mainland Europe at Spain. A common entry point into the ‘West’, Spain’s southern coast is, in these images and narratives, a kind of limit point for ‘civilisation’. It would…