I was, while walking through Glasgow, listening to the audiobook of Tony Judt’s Reappraisals – a collection of essays largely … [Read more...] about The South Africa of the Mind
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Where I Stand 1/05/16
VS Naipaul has been a divisive writer and character. I have not read many of his works and I in fact know very little about him … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 1/05/16
Where I Stand 10/04/16
Notes on a new fiction called The Albertsburg Judgement: The Albertsburg Judgement is a conscious collaboration with the … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 10/04/16
Where I Stand 05/04/2016
I have not written anything in a while mainly because of Easter but partly because I am not really sure what can be written. The … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 05/04/2016
Where I Stand 15/03/16
This passage from Albert Memmi gave me pause for thought today. 'The leftist coloniser is part of the oppressing group and will … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 15/03/16
Where I Stand 01/03/16
In Pierre Nora’s Les Francais D’Algeria (1961) Nora states that the liberal pied-noirs of Algeria claims to the discourse of … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 01/03/16
