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The River Tent Is Broken

Palesa Motsomi, the genius behind the cover design here is my u su g heroine. Those of you who know the history of Heinemann African Book series, will know why we chose the

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

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