"If the whiteness they pursue is cool and haughty and blank, history is uncool, reaches out gawkily for affinities, as…"

"The newspapers were always full of stories about abandoned children found tied up or living under the bed because the…"

"On the other hand, when I was at school, I remember kids in my class boasting about the members of their family who h…"

"I was hot-headed, impatient, I just wanted to leave the whole oppressiveness of my own culture far behind."

"I have a ghost existence here: my whole intellectual and emotional life is in South Africa."

"I'm very, very contrary. And I want to be in control, which is what informs my attitude to publishing, editing, being…"

"After several false starts, self-reflexivity offered a solution –– I decided to exploit my inability to write, to fic…"

"Hinza Marossi, Pringle’s adopted son, was of interest from the outset. Not only is his story recorded in a poem, but …"

"Nicholas Greene, a character from Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando (one of my favourite novels) is a more controversial…"

"I’m drawn to a subject, do the necessary research, and then the problem of how to represent that subject arises. A st…"