This is an edited extract from SA writer Ivan Vladislavic’s new book The Near North
”101 Detectives” sees Ivan Vladislavi? return to his metier, the short story. This extract is from the title story, 101 Detectives.
David Goldblatt is the featured artist at this year’s Johannesburg Art Fair. He is showing work under the title The Frock and Other Pictures.
<i>The Exploded View</i> by Ivan Vladislavic, is a collection of four longish short stories, set in the present. Although it is very much a book about Johannesburg, the stories could conceivably happen in any South African city today.