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“... classic white African murder: drunken father kills wife, children, self. Carolyn Slaughter and Alexandra Fuller’s memoirs of ‘an African childhood’ try, indirectly, to explain how generations of white people who ‘knew what was best for their Africans’ got it so wrong. Before the Knife and Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight share more ...”

“... what they could see, opening a window into a world of subaltern scepticism that cries out for fuller investigation. The origins of these unorthodox ideas and their connections with better-documented examples of aristocratic infidelity deserve to be the subject of future studies. So too does their relationship with the polemics against confessional enemies ...”

“... She is also a marvellous, canny writer. But in its new and expanded version (she has added a fuller account of Cather’s critical reception in the 1920s and 1930s and a concluding reflection on her ‘tragic sense of life’) her essay must also disquiet even the most jaded anti-academic. Were all the critical manoeuvres executed by Cather scholars over ...”