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The problem with seeing giants
I was somewhere between Matjiesfontein and Laignsburg, alone on the N1 with nothing but the Karoo for company, when I noticed I wasn't alone.He was already in the passenger seat....
The problem with seeing giants
I was somewhere between Matjiesfontein and Laignsburg, alone on the N1 with nothing but the Karoo for company, when I noticed I wasn't alone.He was already in the passenger seat....
Ordinary men who make magic
My father is a reader.Not an academic reader. Not a man who underlines things or keeps a reading journal or obsess about narrative structure. He likes Wilbur Smith and Clive...
Ordinary men who make magic
My father is a reader.Not an academic reader. Not a man who underlines things or keeps a reading journal or obsess about narrative structure. He likes Wilbur Smith and Clive...
Braais and the art of building worlds that don'...
There is no document that explains how a braai works.Nobody sat down and wrote the rules. There was no orientation, no handbook distributed at some point in your childhood, no...
Braais and the art of building worlds that don'...
There is no document that explains how a braai works.Nobody sat down and wrote the rules. There was no orientation, no handbook distributed at some point in your childhood, no...
An email about The Divine Comedy and Mrs. Ball'...
At the start of the 1300s, Dante Alighieri made a decision that scandalized the literary establishment of his time. He chose to write in Italian (specifically the Tuscan dialect of...
An email about The Divine Comedy and Mrs. Ball'...
At the start of the 1300s, Dante Alighieri made a decision that scandalized the literary establishment of his time. He chose to write in Italian (specifically the Tuscan dialect of...
The results are in (and I owe you an answer)
Last week I asked you to tell me what you read. I said there were no wrong answers. I meant it. And then you answered, and I've been thinking about...
The results are in (and I owe you an answer)
Last week I asked you to tell me what you read. I said there were no wrong answers. I meant it. And then you answered, and I've been thinking about...
No wrong answers
You read a certain kind of book, and maybe it's the first thing you'd admit about yourself. Maybe it's the last. But there's a shelf somewhere, real or imagined, that...
No wrong answers
You read a certain kind of book, and maybe it's the first thing you'd admit about yourself. Maybe it's the last. But there's a shelf somewhere, real or imagined, that...