

Oor Joan Didion
Lank voordat ek na New York toe getrek het, kon ek deel word van die stad deur Joan Didion se opstelle: die somerstorms met sy parfuum en...


In memory of my grandfather, Danie Van Niekerk (1928-2022)
When we were little, my grandfather wasn’t the type to play games or make jokes. Words were his bread and butter, but he was a man of...


Prospectus: The Grain Of Sand In The Machine
What would it mean, in the aftermath of anti-colonial and transitional justice movements in southern Africa, to untangle or un-corrupt...


The Time of Now: An Interview with the Editors of the Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism
We can go into indefinite lockdown, but we cannot make ourselves immune from what happens in a distant part of the world. We will...


Translation: "Dark, Dark Country" by Ralph Rabie, a.k.a. Johannes Kerkorrel
The 1980s was a dark time in South Africa, to say the least. Media was censored; subversive literature, art, theater, and music were...


The House of Exile: James Baldwin and Sisonke Msimang
“In exile we only thought about the Boers. We never imagined the houses—what they were like inside and how it felt to live in one.”...


Balancing the Bookshelves: The Women Who Are Creating More Diverse Stories for Children
“Daughters can also be heroic.” If there is a maxim that Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo – co-founders of the children’s media...


The Ghost In The Machine: Creating Hamlet in VR
There’s an urban legend among cinema cognoscenti that one of the first films ever made— all 50 seconds of a steam train moving towards...


How to Make An Urban Jungle Green: NYU's Assistant Vice President for Sustainability, Cecil Scheib
Fresh out of college in the early 1990s, Cecil Scheib was one of three like-minded Stanford graduates to found an ecovillage in the...


How Data is Helping Homeless Shelters Curb The Cycle of Readmission
One of the many tragedies of homelessness in New York City is that passing through the shelter system might leave a family in as...