There’s a fantastic review of Southern Imagining in Harvard Review. In it, Carmen Bugan notes: Elleke Boehmer’s literary and cultural history offers a deeply researched, masterfully crafted account of southernmost […]
This month sees the publication of issue 53 of the Katherine Mansfield Society Newsletter , which includes a review of Southern Imagining by Redmer Yska. Yska calls the book a
We’re delighted that Ice Shock has been longlisted for the 2026 Sunday Times Fiction Prize! The novel is one of twenty in the longlist in a year that marks the
Peter Frankopan has featured Southern Imagining in his Substack, Global Threads with Peter Frankopan. In a piece entitled, ‘Reorienting the World: From the Southern Hemisphere to the Invisible Geography of
Times Higher Education has featured an in-depth profile on Elleke by Matthew Reisz. In it, he explores the thematic resonances of both Southern Imagining (a ‘hugely ambitious’ and ‘very striking
Rodwell Makombe has published a review of Ice Shock for The Conversation. In it, he describes the novel as ‘a breathtaking story’ and ‘an attempt to rethink and rewrite how
Ed Stoddard has written a new review of Southern Imagining in The Daily Maverick, entitled ‘The southern hemisphere has found its literary and cultural historian’. He notes: Elleke Boehmer has
The Institute of Art and Ideas recently published an article by Elleke that uses the famous 1972 “blue marble” photograph of earth as its point of departure to discuss the
Elleke was in conversation with Lola Frost at the Artvark Gallery in Kalk Bay on 12 March 2026. They explored the overlaps between Southern Imagining and Ice Shock and Frost’s
Elleke was in conversation with Dilip Menon about Southern Imagining for the book’s launch at Love Books in Johannesburg on 10 March 2026. Watch the conversation here