MixedThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)The fact that the subtlety and pathos provided by these two women are eclipsed by the Big Guy is unnervingly appropriate. If nothing else, The Unfolding powerfully captures something of how nuance and complexity are all too often pushed aside by those who talk the loudest in a fractiously partisan political landscape.
Alexandra Kleeman
RaveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)In the end, the novel itself becomes so saturated with WAT-R that it seems to forget where it was going, the various plots fragmenting and tailing off before evaporating under the California sun. But if this feels disorientating, that’s the point: Kleeman pulls off a masterly marriage of form and content to give the reader a taste of WAT-R and subject us to its corrosive effects. It may not be the ghost story Patrick’s Hamlet-inspired novel promised, but Something New Under the Sun is still a ghost story. Its concern is not with the spectres of the past but the much spookier ghost of a vanishing future.
Marlon James
PositiveTimes Literary Supplement\"The world James creates in Black Leopard, Red Wolf is an archaic one ... The pulsing rhythm of a fight scene... or the satisfying rhyme when Tracker confronts a king in the underworld... can make it feel as if you are listening to Tracker’s words rather than reading them ... If anything, James finds even greater scope to explore the gruesome and macabre [than in previous works] ... The drama lies not in good characters and bad characters facing off in a straightforward struggle for supremacy: it lies in the slippery and more complex contest of narrative and storytelling that unfolds.\
