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Marikana and its Redoubling as ‘True Crime’ Media
(An extract from Losing the Plot: Crime, Reality, and Fiction in Postapartheid Writing, forthcoming at Witwatersrand University Press, 2016.) If there is one event in postapartheid history that concentrates all the elements of a pathological public sphere, and suggests […]
Of ‘Scandi-crime’ novels and Anders Breivik
Last month saw the start of the trial of Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing terrorist who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting spree in Norway’s capital last July. REBECCA DAVIS looks at the intersection between Scandinavia’s hugely popular […]
Making sense of our world: Interview with Mike Nicol
In an interview with SLIPnet’s Wamuwi Mbao, Mike Nicol talks about the intersection between his fiction and non-fiction writing.
A Critical Problem
Leon De Kock turns his attentions on an interesting literary dilemma.
Domesticated Terrors
Drum magazine, circa 1951. Henry Nxumalo writes a piece called “The Birth of a Tsotsi”. It is about a young boy of precarious circumstances who takes a wrong turning. Against a backdrop where uncertain material circumstances jostle with the desire […]
