Kavish Chetty rails against the mediocrity of public discourse evinced in the FLF panel, ‘Trial by Twitter’.

Is the curse of Babel inevitable? Chantelle Gray van Heerden again takes up the niggling question of translation, this time at the FLF.

Chantelle Gray van Heerden considers the implications of fracking, as raised in conversation at the Franschhoek Literary Festival.

How literary is the Franschhoek Literary Festival? Kavish Chetty is dismayed to find himself in a conversation filled with business jargon.

Bibi Burger, attending Leonie Joubert’s talk at the FLF, wonders about the paternalism underlying food education in South Africa.