Beautiful World, Where are You: Indeed
Intimate, is one way to describe Sally Rooney’s latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You. There are only four characters: close friends Alice and Eileen, and the men with whom … Read More
Category: Literature
Harlem Shuffle: The art of not breaking
Is it possible for a person with a modicum of ambition to be straight in a crooked world? This may be the central question of Colson Whitehead’s tenth novel, Harlem … Read More
Give us more guns: Answers to violence in South Africa
Thousands of police-issue guns – the made-in-South-Africa 9mm Z88 – have been sold to Cape Town gangs since the mid-2000s to early 2015. The flood of guns to gangs saw … Read More
We Are Bellingcat: Holding power to account
Conspiracy theorists have at least two positive qualities: They are sceptical of authority, and they are willing to challenge the status quo. Unfortunately they stop there and don’t apply the … Read More
Little gods: the flawed origin of our world
Blessed are those who have an uncomplicated relationship with their mother, for of all human relationships, it must be the one with the most potential for complexity. We owe her … Read More