Bastards and Badlands – A Conversation with Jason Aaron
This century has seen an incredible proliferation of fiction which uses the noir templates of tormented gangsters, crooked cops and unhappy endings to interrogate political and sociological issues. The paranoid works of James Ellroy and David Peace map the seedy underworld of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism. Epic novels like Roberto […]
The Uncelebrated Feast
President Jacob Zuma is set to be inaugurated on Saturday for his second term, with Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan stating in March this year that R120-million had been set aside for the event. This is a substantial increase on the R75-million spent on Zuma’s inauguration in 2009. Then last week Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane […]