The Meat Room: Bushveldt thriller guts apartheid’s twilight
The fourth sentence is cliched and the second sentence has a contradiction in the tenses. This is the kind of thing that happens when you have to self publish because … Read More
Category: Literature
Outlaw love
The Western is a well-trodden genre, defined as much by place and time as by character and plot. So much part of the American myth of freedom and self-sufficiency, it … Read More
Once Removed: A clear view of art world bollocks
Behind all the impeccably clean (sterile?) exhibition openings propped up with champagne or wine and addresses by eminents, the jet-setting to biennales on international shores, and auction prices that resemble … Read More
Wole Soyinka’s new novel is an exuberant takedown of a corrupt state
It is a mighty tome from the great Nigerian writer. Chronicles From The Land Of The Happiest People On Earth is a mire of poetic prose. It is possible to sink in … Read More
Everyone Dies: No gauche debutante
Not thinking about death – our own and that of the people we love – is probably a mechanism of the mind that prevents us from being paralysed by its … Read More