Rosa Lyster

Rosa Lyster is working on a book about the global water crisis. (July 2022)

Whose Homeland?

Damon Galgut’s novel The Promise confronts South Africa’s most significant political issue: the land and whom it belongs to.

The Promise

by Damon Galgut

July 21, 2022 issue

Family Liturgies

Gwendoline Riley’s language is economical, her style cool—yet the emotional pitch of her latest novel, My Phantoms, is almost intolerably high.

My Phantoms

by Gwendoline Riley

December 2, 2021 issue

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