Reviews for The Rowing Lesson
 | NY Times "The Dutiful Daughter" At her father's deathbed, a woman imagines her way into his experience. Read Review |
 | NY Times "Editor's Choice" The protagonist of this viscerally appealing novel sits at her father's deathbed and imagines her way into his experience as a South African Jew. Read Review |
 | The Guardian "A Fine Line Between Love & Hate" Anne Landsman's The Rowing Lesson dissects the fraught relationship between a father and daughter, says Lara Feigel Read Review |
 | The Telegraph "Bloodlines blurring at the end of a life" The Rowing Lesson is both innovative and unusually intense. Read Review |
 | The Scotsman "What the tide washed up" Straight from the sinuous opening something dramatic, malign and deliberate seems on the cards. Read Review |
 | Esquire "Three to Read" The Rowing Lesson Read Review |
 | FT Magazine "Poetry in Motion" Meticulous language defines this understated novel. Read Review |
 | More "Don't Miss Books" Landsman's lyrical novel is a tribute to family ties. Read Review |
 | L.A. Times "Book Review - A death in South Africa" The unfolding of time and relationships in death. Read the Review Online |
 | Oprah "A Quartet of Pure Rapture" Read Review |
Reviews for The Devil's Chimney |
 | The Times "A Rare Feather in Her Cap" The Devil's Chimney is an allegory for the structure of South African society in this century. The novel's spine is a set of rumbling racial distinctions tacked up like old bricks... More |
 | The New Yorker This first novel, narrated by the alcoholic, semideranged Connie Lam-brechht, brings to mind the parabolic prose of Alice; Munro and the scarifying vision of J. M. Coetzee. More |
 | The Miami Herald "Passion, tragedy by the Cango Caves" Set in the vast, harsh landscape of the South African veld, Anne Landsman's remarkable first novel is a transforming allegory of passion and transgression, retribution and redemption. More |
 | Femina "Anne Landsman on Myths and Magic" First-time author Anne Landsman grew up in Worcester, 'but that wasn't the real me', Writing about her novel The Devil's Chimney (Soho Press) More |
 | Leadership Magazine This book by a South African expatriate, due to be published in the US shortly, suggests that the critic Fredric Jameson may not have been so far wrong when he put for-ward that magic realism has become the literary language of the emergent post- colonial world. More |
 | Publishers Weekly Hubris, madness and ruin in South Africa come urgently alive in Landsman's im-pressive debut. The physical terrain of the Karoo region and the country's... More |
 | Paper Magazine When South African author Anne Landsman says that writing her stunning novel, The Devils Chimney (Soho Press) , was like dreaming," she isn't kidding. More |
Reviews for An Uncertain Inheritance |
 | Reform Judaism "Books: Caring, Courage, Loss" Caring for a family member is a complex mitzvah, bringing forth a range of emotions for which we are seldom prepared. More |