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Review: The Child

LitNet (25 June 2024)

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Review: Wat dit beteken om te bly, terug te keer (Afrikaans)

Die Burger / Beeld / Netwerk24 (1 July 2024)

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Review: Alistair Mackay’s ‘The Child’: the queering of post-apartheid identity and belonging

Sunday Times (14 June 2024)

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Review: Om jou kastele in Spanje te sloop (Afrikaans)

Vrye Weekblad (10 May 2024)

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Review: Outrageously beautiful: Alistair Mackay’s soul-shattering The Child is healing literature

News24 (21 May 2024)

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The apocalypse after the apocalypse”

New Frame (23 May 2022)

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Climate Dystopia, Homophobia and Capitalism: An Interview with Alistair Mackay“

Gay Pages (Winter 2022)

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A poetic, resonant nightmare about LGBT rights and climate change.”

Mail & Guardian (22 August 2022)

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It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way’ — a must-read fiction about the very real climate crisis”

Daily Maverick (4 October 2022)

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It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way” (Dutch)

Het Zuid-Afrikahuis Cultuur en Kenniscentrum (4 May 2023)

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“‘A dark, vast emptiness within, as boundless as the universe outside’ – Read an excerpt from Alistair Mackay’s debut novel It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way”

Johannesburg Review of Books (17 February 2022)

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Queer characters walk the future streets of Cape Town in this dystopian tale

News 24 (9 March 2022)

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It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way – The future is up to us”

Mother City News (4 April 2022)

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Ready or not, change is upon us – Alistair Mackay’s debut is a brutal and brilliant dystopian novel in its commentary on the possibility of our collective future”

Sunday Times (8 May 2022)

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It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way”

Culture Review Magazine (9 June 2022)

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It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way: An Exploration of Apocalyptic Cape Town”

Cape{Town}Etc (27 July 2022)

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Dystopian novel like a slap on the head

(Afrikaans)Vrye Weekblad (29 July 2022)

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