Australian Book Review: Southern Imagining
A new review of Southern Imagining is featured in the September 2026 issue of the Australian Book Review. In it, Elizabeth Leane, Professor of Antarctic Studies in the School of
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Harvard Review: Southern Imagining
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
‘Reorienting the World’: Peter Frankopan on Southern Imagining
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
Elleke, Southern Imagining, and Ice Shock in Times Higher Education
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
The Conversation review of Ice Shock: ‘a novel about passionate love in a time of climate crisis’
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
Southern Imagining review in The Daily Maverick
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
Barbara Boswell reviews Ice Shock by Elleke Boehmer for the JRB
In a review for the Johannesburg Review of Books entitled ‘A reluctant, complicated love story spanning the globe and a myriad natural disasters’, Barbara Boswell discusses Ice Shock as: [A]
Review of Ice Shock in The Polar Journal
Elizabeth Leane has written a review of Ice Shock for The Polar Journal: “Entangled stories of a warming continent: a review of two recent Antarctic novels”. In it, she calls
‘Gaining insight’: Review of Ice Shock in Business Day
In her Business Day review of Ice Shock, Arja Salafranca describes ‘One of the pleasures of reading this novel [as] reading … descriptions of [Antarctica] and gaining some insight into
News24 review of Ice Shock
Jane Rosenthal has published a new review of Ice Shock, titled ‘Elleke Boehmer’s Ice Shock is a serious but accessible novel about keeping in touch’.