Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Elephant in the Room

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This is an intensely uncomfortable play to watch, and in some way take part in, because you’re also intensely involved in it. It’s impossibl...
Friday, April 13, 2012

All’s fair in love and war at the 2012 Franschhoek Literary Festival

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The annual Franschhoek Literary Festival features an array of topics from hot politics to cool poetry, love stories to the horrors of war. T...
Saturday, April 7, 2012

Arja Salafranca, Cape Town, 2012

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Out in Africa reviews March 2012

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Many of the stories in the latest batch of Out in Africa films both affirm the power of gay sex and identity, and show a way beyond ghettoes...

Communion with self: diary excerpts from Volume 40

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I ’ve kept diaries since the age of eleven – I can’t explain what compulsion made me begin. A friend of my mother’s gave me a beautiful red ...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Review of Willesden Herald New Short Stories 5, edited by Stephen Moran

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This volume collects together the 12 finalists for the annual Willesden Herald short story competition. As with any anthology some will reso...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Meditative and moving

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Reviewing Alice , five interlinked short stories by Judith Hermann  German writer Judith Hermann examines the loss of a loved one through ...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Illuminating the poetry and horror of suburban life

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Illuminating Love  by Hazel Frankel Illuminating Love (Jacana), by Joburg writer Hazel Frankel, is set in the heart of that city’s norther...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Charm of the Bushveld

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The journey begins with a propeller-driven De Havilland, the body of the plane is narrow, just two seats on either side of the aisle. We’re ...