Jun 24, 2014 | ARTiculate
By JO-ANNE GARLAND As I sat with eyes glued to the festivities of the World Cup opening ceremony, I struggled to remove the contrasting images of rioting crowds outside the stadium from my mind. The scene bore an uncomfortable resemblance to Suzanne Collins’ dystopian...
May 20, 2014 | ARTiculate
By BRUCE DENNILL “To be properly committed to the writing process, you need to be sufficiently obsessed with the project” – Damon Galgut The Franschhoek Literary Festival 2014 was held from 16 to 18 May. It was superb experience, three days of brain food and...
May 17, 2014 | ARTiculate
By BRUCE DENNILL This weekend, I’m a FLFer. It’s pronounced like that word, but it’s not nearly so hard on the knees. The Franschhoek Literary Festival is, as I write, half-way done, and it’s been its usual melange of the entertaining, intellectual, naïve,...
Apr 23, 2014 | ARTiculate
By TAMSYN LUNT Today marks the annual celebration of World Book Day! We can all band together and bask in the glory of the classics. Of crime novels and fantasies. We can think fondly of the distinct smell of fresh chapters or of yellow-stained pages handled...
