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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Another sinless season
Damon Galgut chats to Chantelle Gray van Heerden about the things that make people uncomfortable.
Posted in Blogs, Reviews
Tagged Arctic Summer, Damon Galgut, E.M. Foster, Passage to India
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Jazz, the human condition and the ongoing moment
Geoff Dyer: Cocky, arrogant and damn charming in equal parts.
Posted in Blogs, Reviews
Tagged boredom, California, DeLillo, film, Geoff Dyer, John Berger, Stalker, Ways of telling
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Beats and Beatings
Kate Ellis-Cole offers an elucidating reading of poetries of ‘overload’, focusing particularly on Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ and Kgafela oa Magogodi’s ‘beautiful ones are dying’.
Posted in Blogs, Essays
Tagged Allan Ginsberg, Beats poetry movement, counter-culture, dichotomy, establishment, Kgafela oa Magogodi, protest, taboos
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A bit of difference, indeed
Sefi Atta on women’s roles, nationalistic love and swapping skins.
Celebrating Somalia
Somalia is no failed state when it comes to producing art and culture, says Delalorm Sesi Semabia.
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Tagged Arabic, Brunel Poetry Prize, Gaarriye, Hadraawi, poetry, Somalia, Wadaad, Warsan Shire, World Cup
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