IS IT WRONG FOR READERS TO IDENTIFY WITH FICTIONAL CHARACTERS?
BELOW IS A SUMMARY OF AN EMAIL I RECEIVED FROM AN ACADEMIC I RESPECT. IT IS FOLLOWED BY MY FULL REPLY TO HER: I was disappointed to hear you encourage students treat your
Mphuthumi Ntabeni
Mphuthumi Ntabeni is trained in built environment, reads literature, history and philosophy. He lives in Cape Town. He has written two historical novels, The Broken River Tent & The Wanderers.
St Augustine on the Doldrums
If you think this writing thing is difficult, spare a thought for St Augustine in the fifth century when an early reader of The Confessions, the gentleman named Consentius, living in intellectual isolation
BEAUTIES
If This Be Man
Night came, and it was such a night one knew that human eyes would not witness it and survive. Everyone felt this: not one of the guards, neither Italian nor German, had the
LEAVING ATOCHA STATION
An American (read US) goes to Madrid on a prestigious poetry grant. There he observes things, like how ridiculous Americans seem abroad with their monolingualism, blinked opinions and false sense of being the
Read an excerpt from The Wanderers
The Johannesburg Book Review have published an excerpt from my forthcoming novel The Wanderers.