I don’t think that, when future generations look at the apartheid struggle, they will see it as quite the momentous literary cauldron that recent history has suggested. In fact, as well as recording the struggle...

…he is thinking about thoughts; so many thoughts piled up, such a quantity of half-remembered knowledge, so many emotions brought up from the well to spill out: the unrolling of history – a river into...

It’s as though a smile is ageless, or perhaps eternal, independent of the decay and collapse of the surrounding features.