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This year has brought new optimism to South Africa’s commercial property industry. (Murat Özgür Güvendik/Getty Images)
THE NEAR NORTH

Living in Joburg in a time of crisis

This is an edited extract from SA writer Ivan Vladislavic’s new book The Near North

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This new collection of short fiction ranges from translators’ struggling for words to industrial theatre shenanigans and a convention of private eyes. (Graphic: John McCann)
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Ivan Vladislavic: Mystery of a detective’s language

”101 Detectives” sees Ivan Vladislavi? return to his metier, the short story. This extract is from the title story, 101 Detectives.

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ART

Goldblatt: I’m after a particular sense of stillness

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.

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Jo’burg stories

<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…

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