Book Extracts

In ‘A Map to the Door of No Return’ Dionne Brand reads VS Naipaul as a sorrowfully spiteful narrator, full of the despair of exile

Drug user, and later dealer, Fig lives in Yeoville in the mid-1990s. Not a novel for the faint-hearted

For Asian South Africans it’s difficult to find our way between two different cultures

‘Chota Motala: A Biography of Political Activism in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands’ recounts the doctor’s role in shaping politics

Here is an edited extract from Michael Neocosmos’ book Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics (Wits University Press)

An edited extract from South Africa’s Corporatised Liberation — A critical analysis of the ANC in power (Jacana) by Dale T McKinley.

Edited extract from ‘Rogue: The Inside Story of Sars’s Elite Crime-busting Unit’, by Johann van Loggerenberg with Adrian Lackay..

Initially suspicious, the major general discovered another side to the tenacious IPID director — which in turn would lead to McBride’s suspension

Liberation Diaries, which brings together essays by 50 South Africans, is billed as ‘the state of the nation address, by the people’. Here’s a sample.

Achmat Dangor re-examines the ‘struggle years’ and their aftermath in a brand new collection of short stories, Strange Pilgrimages.

Michael Burawoy and Karl Von Holdt’s "Conversations with Bourdieu: The Johannesburg Moment" examines ways to structure power.

Nadine Gordimer charts South Africa’s journey into an uncertain landscape in her new novel. We publish two extracts from the novel.

On the 60th anniversary of Herman Charles Bosman’s death, we publish ‘Homecoming’ from <i>The ­Complete Voorkamer Stories</i>.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama talks about Archbishop Desmond Tutu in this edited extract from <i>Tutu: The Authorised Portrait</i>.