Local touches were everywhere, from an extensive collection of books ranging from South African chick-lit to memoirs of Nelson Mandela, Trevor Noah, and Siya Kolisi to a mini-bar stocked with gin, rum, and brandy made with Cape Fynbos plants.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 June 2026
This month’s picks feature natural histories of American megafauna, domestic memoirs of parenting while trans, biographies of radical anthropologists, and much, much more.
Armitage fused East African histories, mythology, sexuality, violence, and colonial memory into lush, unstable compositions that felt simultaneously intimate and epic.
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Thomas Rom,
ARTnews.com,
8 June 2026
Considering that universities have a mixed record of preserving their histories, let’s hear it for the University of Chicago.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2026
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