Media track record: Wicomb's novels have received acclaim from The New Yorker , New York Times , Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal , as well as writers like Toni Morrison, J.M. Coetzee, Bharati Mukherjee, Louise Welsh, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Platform: In South Africa and in the field of contemporary literature, post-apartheid South Africa and postcolonial studies, her essays on the works of such prominent South African writers as Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Njabulo Ndebele, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as on a wide range of cultural and political topics, including gender politics, sexuality, race, identity, nationalism, and visual art, are renowned.