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Whose voices matter now?
Women’s Day comes and goes every year, and we’re reminded to look back in honour of the women who marched, fought, wrote, and refused to stay quiet. That history matters....
Whose voices matter now?
Women’s Day comes and goes every year, and we’re reminded to look back in honour of the women who marched, fought, wrote, and refused to stay quiet. That history matters....
A note to our South African authors (And to the...
Bookshops have always been places where writers find readers and where readers find themselves.Think of Shakespeare and Company in Paris, where writers like James Baldwin, AnaĂŻs Nin, and Lawrence Durrell...
A note to our South African authors (And to the...
Bookshops have always been places where writers find readers and where readers find themselves.Think of Shakespeare and Company in Paris, where writers like James Baldwin, AnaĂŻs Nin, and Lawrence Durrell...
A year older and the story’s just getting good
Three years ago, The Story Station started with a handful of books and a lot of hope. We didn’t know if anyone would find us. Or if they’d care. But...
A year older and the story’s just getting good
Three years ago, The Story Station started with a handful of books and a lot of hope. We didn’t know if anyone would find us. Or if they’d care. But...
Wait… did the reader just die too?
In the late 1960s, Roland Barthes famously declared the “death of the author,” proposing that the meaning of a text does not originate with the writer, but is instead constructed...
Wait… did the reader just die too?
In the late 1960s, Roland Barthes famously declared the “death of the author,” proposing that the meaning of a text does not originate with the writer, but is instead constructed...
Burning buildings. Saved with love.
“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”— Tennessee Williams It’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The world often feels...
Burning buildings. Saved with love.
“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”— Tennessee Williams It’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The world often feels...
One for the humans (and the robots)
Dear Algorithm, You’ll never understand why we keep a shelf just for books that smell like Sunday afternoons and old typewriters. That’s okay. You’ve got your job. We’ve got ours....
One for the humans (and the robots)
Dear Algorithm, You’ll never understand why we keep a shelf just for books that smell like Sunday afternoons and old typewriters. That’s okay. You’ve got your job. We’ve got ours....