Experiments, excerpts, extras

 Load shedding in Johannesburg, 2007: an account of the origin of the project.

An A-Z of deleted scenes, outtakes, fragments.

A literary con: Rereading Dugmore Boetie’s Familiarity is the Kingdom of the Lost. Excerpt in the Johannesburg Review of Books, 1 April 2019.

Re: Visions of Tsafendas: Reading Harris Dousemetzis’s The Man Who Killed Apartheid (2018).

On the diary form and environmental writing in South African literature:
A minor form: the notebooks of Stephen Watson and Athol Fugard.

An early piece on literary non-fiction in South Africa. Safundi, Special Issue: Beyond Rivalry: Fact | Fiction, Literature | History (2012).

A condensed version of / excerpt from the introduction. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 31:2 (2019).

‘Unusable Pasts’: an article on literary and artistic responses to Demetrios Tsafendas, assassin of Hendrik Verwoerd. Research in African Literatures, 46:3 (2015). See also Visions of Tsafendas: Literary Biography and the Limits of ‘Research’. Safundi, 16:4 (2015), about the challenges and limits of biographical method.

‘A Very Strange Relationship’: an account of a controversial, ‘deauthorised’ biography of Nadine Gordimer. Biography, 41:1 (2018). A response to my article by biographer Ronald Suresh Roberts. 

Special issue on ‘Awkward biography’ in post-apartheid South Africa. African Studies, 78:2 (2019), with several links to my research.