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Africa

‘This is the voice of contemporary South African fiction’—Joanne Ruth Davis reviews Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s new novel The Wanderers

October 15, 2021October 15, 2021Joanne Ruth DavisLeave a Comment on ‘This is the voice of contemporary South African fiction’—Joanne Ruth Davis reviews Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s new novel The Wanderers

Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s The Wanderers is a novel that indicates a storyteller in love with the art of telling tales, writes…

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Fiction

‘We have entered the uncanny valley of literary realism’—Simon van Schalkwyk reviews Ian McEwan’s new novel Machines Like Me

June 3, 2019June 3, 2019Simon van Schalkwyk1 Comment on ‘We have entered the uncanny valley of literary realism’—Simon van Schalkwyk reviews Ian McEwan’s new novel Machines Like Me

In Machines Like Me, Ian McEwan appears to have offered us an alternative history that leads to the same dispiriting…

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