Readers write in about FW de Klerk, Evita and racism, and Umberto Eco.
Eco, who has died at the age of 84, bestrode the disparate worlds of Âpopular fiction and critical thinking with panache.
Eco’s new book tells the story of the notorious anti-Semitic forgery, <em>The Protocols of the Elders of Zion</em>.
The esteemed Umberto Eco brings us a weighty volume in <em>The Infinity of Lists</em>. The problem however is, that the book is arm-gnawingly boring.
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/ 26 December 2007
A man in a clerical habit abused me in the church hall of the Johannesburg parish of the Immaculate Conception in Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank. It happened after a children’s Christmas party — and my abuser was a Catholic cleric. My uncle, Cardinal Owen McCann, was the archbishop of Cape Town at the time. His position as president of the South African Catholic Bishops’ Conference was not enough to deter my abuser.
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/ 21 September 2007
Darryl Accone reviews Michael Dibdin’s End Games, the last instalment of the Zen novels.
Shaun de Waal reviews the film adaptation of Patrick Suskind’s novel <i>Perfume</i>