Lit Hub’s Astrology Book Club predicts that Leos should read Afterland this month. Don’t look at me – it’s in the stars! Emily Temple writes: In this weirdly prescient pandemic novel, a woman goes to extraordinary lengths to protect her child—something fierce, loyal Leos will completely understand. Plus, Leos love a good page-turner, and Beukes can […]
It’s such a thrill to see Afterland recommended by the New York Times, in the company of Want by Lynn Steger Strong, The Unidentified by Colin Dickey, and Laura van den Berg’s new short story collection, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears. Joumana Khatib writes: After the “Manfall” pandemic wipes out most of the men on the […]
I was interviewed by Hillel Italie from AP last week about why people write plague books. I can’t tell you how weird it is to have a novel coming out about the aftermath of a devastating global pandemic! The piece also features Lawrence Wright’s The End of October, and The Red Lotus by Chris Bojalian. […]
I love The Guardian’s weekly Book Clinic series and the idea of books as medicine. This week, an anonymous mother asked for book recommendations for her teenage son. Peter Swanson recommended The Shining Girls (“If he’d like something a little edgier”), as well as Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, everything by Stephen King (natch), and Bonecrack by […]
My super forked-up* lab grown sex dolls story Ungirls is a 99 cents Kindle special this week (til 15 March 2020). Ungirls is part of the Disorder collection, an Amazon original anthology of six stories of “living nightmares etc” American Amazon users: get it here for $0.99, or browse the other awesome titles on promotion. The rest […]
Oh man, it was such a joy being on the jury for the South African edition of the 10th Shnit Short Film Festival in October last year with legend Dr John Kani, cinematographer Gaopie Kabe and director Kagiso Lediga (whose Queen Sono is debuting on Netflix 28 February 2020). The films were wonderful; from the […]
One of my favourite sites, Lit Reactor named my art-in-Detroit horror baby, Broken Monsters one of the The Best Horror Novels Of The Last Decade: “A stunning conglomeration of detective mystery and supernatural horror, this fourth novel from Beukes is both a page-turner and an earnest look at the people making the most of their […]
This is a terrific review of my short stories and non-fiction collection, Slipping from the team over at Kirkus: An art installation so tactile as to feel alive, a ghost that lurks alongside a promising architecture student, a girl gutted from the inside to make a premiere athlete: all stitched together into a punk tapestry […]