The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Okey Ndibe's Foreign Gods, Inc..
I was disappointed by this -- but (for what it's worth) Janet Maslin, reviewing it in The New York Times yesterday, loved it. (She suggests that: "Only in mimicking a slick American idiom does Mr. Ndibe falter" (and even suggests: "and that's probably to his credit"), but to me that's just the tip of the faltering iceberg .....)
I was disappointed by this -- but (for what it's worth) Janet Maslin, reviewing it in The New York Times yesterday, loved it. (She suggests that: "Only in mimicking a slick American idiom does Mr. Ndibe falter" (and even suggests: "and that's probably to his credit"), but to me that's just the tip of the faltering iceberg .....)