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Glen Retief

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Glen Retief

Refugee: Like Seven of Nine (above), the heroine in ‘Star Trek’, Said Shaiye, the author of ‘Are You Borg Now?’, admits to a limited emotional range.
ARE YOU BORG NOW

An inner dialogue about a Somali in America

Said Shaiye’s memoir refuses vulnerability in favour of macho, compelling inner dialogue

  • Glen Retief
4 min read
CLI FI

A poetic, resonant nightmare about LGBT rights and climate change

Alistair Mackay’s debut novel It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way is an important contribution to queer, developing-world cli-fi.

  • Glen Retief
4 min read
CA Davids’s new book is a soulful, lyrical fictional guide to turbulent times.
BOOK REVIEW

‘How to Be a Revolutionary’: A timely catalogue of individual and societal failures

CA Davids’s new novel, ‘How to Be a Revolutionary’ is a soulful, lyrical fictional guide to turbulent times

  • Glen Retief
6 min read