Talk of The Town is Fred Khumalo’s collection of ten short stories. Short stories are not my favourite type of fiction and I am making a conscious effort…
The first thing to be clear about Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed is that the title is misleading. I picked this up assuming that it was a takedown…
Migration is an urgent topic whether you are for it or against it, the inevitable fact is that the movement of people westward has become a hot topic…
In his second novel, Brother, David Chariandy elegiacally narrates a succinct tale of migration, hope, race, community, motherly love and sibling relationship. In less than 200 pages he examines…
The cross and the lynching tree. Two symbols of humiliation, torture and killing. The former, common in the first century Roman Empire and the latter, common almost two…
A Fine Balance is the third novel I have read this year that is set in India. 3 random works of fiction that have had provided different degrees…