More: Literature
The Reward of Having a Revolutionary Spirit
I’ve made
mistakes. More than a few. I haven’t always apologised for my behaviour, for
the mistakes I made, the wrong journey I took, the path...
Sola Osofisan’s masterpiece ‘Blood Will Call’: A bowl of green apples, and a book review
"And as imagination
bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen turns them to shapes
and gives to airy nothing; a local habitation and...
Stanley Kubrick visionary-filmmaker and the journals of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
Losing pieces of your identity already in childhood.
At the end of every pilgrimage in my childhood, there was a line that
was always a painful...
The imagined journal entries of Sylvia Plath nearing the end of her life
The page frees me in a sense, in a way I can’t describe. I write and
that’s my life. I am a mother and a...
A lesson in Naomi Wolf’s promiscuities and an open space where poetry matters
Shut the door. Shut out the quiet light. Tell yourself to swim away from
the tigers with arms pillars of smoke. One day I will...
The way out of apartheid South Africa
Miss Gilbey taught Speech and Drama. Every Friday afternoon as the car
speeded down the highway en route to her studio cum house I would...
Relationship
Elijah, you are a
beautiful book. Just an imprint burned on my brain like a ghost. I miss you
more than most on some days, just...
Things of the past, things of the future
There are so many
things going through Gail’s head at this point in time. By the sea, part
natural, part supernatural, it spits driftwood out in...
The talented scribe: Everybody has to grow up sometime
Whenever disaster strikes me in my world,
I think of home (home as sanctuary, soft place to fall in flight, and
adrenaline rush), or I go...
Pushcart Nominated Wash Away My Sins
We never did get around to building the
swimming pool in our backyard that my wife and I often spoke about. We said it
would be...