Matt McGregor
March 28, 2014
Nigerians in Space, by Deji Bryce Olukotun, is a transnational mystery novel replete with assassins, abalone poaching and an international...
Matt McGregor
November 7, 2013
In the first story of The Blind Fisherman , a collection of Mia Couto's early stories, an old woman watches her husband dig her grave. “We...
Matt McGregor
April 11, 2013
Your first thought on picking up Necropolis , the latest from Colombian novelist Santiago Gamboa, is that it has a rather awesome title...
Matt McGregor
August 16, 2012
In the opening pages of Forgotten Wars , historians Christopher Bayley and Tim Harper make a claim about World War Two that could unsettle...
Matt McGregor
March 9, 2012
It is one of the ironies of contemporary publishing that Roberto Bolaño, author of 2666 and The Savage Detectives , is marketed as a...