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

Ivan Vladislavic explains that being true to the past is not so much about incidents as resonant details

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…

"The Gorilla has a personality of its own, which sets it apart from the herd." An extract from an essay by author Ivan Vladislavic that looks at South Africa’s strangest creature…

Ivan Vladislavic on the whims of Czar Nicholas I.