Book Review | A pan-African poetry of belonging
In his latest poetry collection, Sihle Ntuli’s acute observations of history and place show that belonging is layered, fraught with problems and often unharmonious.
Stories by: Kathleen Ebersohn
Book Review | Mermaid Fillet is rooted in memory
Mia Arderne has entrenched her debut novel in the northern Cape Town suburbs of her youth through its language, characters and their experiences, offering acute observations of contemporary South Africa.
Puleng Mongale draws on home to fill the hollow
The Joburg-based artist explores feelings of displacement and hollowness through digital collages that incorporate images of home and those who have come before.
Barbara Boswell on the ‘audacity to write’
Boswell’s forthcoming book And Wrote My Story Anyway archives the work of several women writers, positing that their fiction is a site of feminist theory. Her own fiction writing does the same.
The importance of art now and beyond Covid-19
The always deeply flawed and unequal conditions of labour for the artistic community have been revealed and made much worse by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
When raising boys, what of love?
In a war against women by men, feminist mothering that teaches boys how to give and receive love is a radical political act.