Grant Hamilton is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He writes on world literature and literary theory, and has a blog devoted to such things. He has two new books coming out this year: a book on literary criticism, titled The World of Failing Machines: Speculative Realism and Literature (Zero Books, 2016) and a co-edited collection of new essays on the Mozambican writer Mia Couto, titled A Companion to Mia Couto (James Currey, 2016). [Reviews]