I understand the allegory in Disgrace, and I don't dislike Coetzee because of who his characters are. But I think using sexual violence as allegory for South African politics would be gauche even if Coetzee weren't also wrong about post-apartheid SA.

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The Vegetarian Ducks, Newburyport The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born (I didn't "overthink" this, so much as my brain overheated for 30 seconds before returning my standard answers.)

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Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 496 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

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Happy 30th birthday, South Africa. There's much to say about all that remains to be done; the compromises that let war criminals and ordinary white people alike off the hook; reparations and rage. But, no matter where you stood on 27 April 1994, this moment mattered. Deeply. (Pic Denis Farrell/AP)

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There is nothing ineluctable about war. If we want war we can choose war, if we want peace we can equally well choose peace. If we want competition we can choose competition; alternatively we can take the path of comradely collaboration. ▫️J. M. Coetzee, 2007 #BookSky 📚💙 📚🖋

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