As we all are coming to the end of the semester, with that feeling of tiredness, stress and possible illness, with finals looming over us… here is a trailer of a new zombie film that looks like fun… Zombies feel love too, you know!
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Your child will be the end of you
It is a good thing that Ben Marcus is visiting the university in a few days, as his novel The Flame Alphabet demands far more questions, often hidden away in metaphorical events, than it does answers. The beginning especially is shrouded in questions – why would parents leave a daughter they loved? Why are Jews […]
Read More →Bhopal – the real-life Khaufpur
December 3rd 1984: Hundreds die in Bhopal chemical accident Hundreds of people have died from the effects of toxic gases which leaked from a chemical factory near the central Indian city of Bhopal. The accident happened in the early hours of this morning at the American-owned Union Carbide Pesticide Plant three miles (4.8 km) from […]
Read More →Welcome to our Humanity
“Welcome to our Hillbrow” This sentence is uttered over and over again as the narrator realises the novel that his protagonist, Refentse couldn’t write in his own lifetime. The novel is in effect, a dedication to both his friend but also to a new South Africa struggling with questions of identity in the post-apartheid era. […]
Read More →Not a Guide Dog, a Blind Dog
Here are links to a couple of things… firstly to a blog review of Blindness – it provides a good overview of the book and crosses over with issues we previously discussed, e.g. the lack of punctuation. Then, to provide some light relief for Eid, and to plug my own poorly made video (!), here […]
Read More →Black(s) Coffee
Here is a link to Historical Views on Contagion… in this case, Yellow Fever in Philadelphia. It outlines some of the beliefs surrounding the disease at the time, for example Benjamin Rush thought that the origin of the disease was a pile of rotting coffee beans and that Blacks were immune to yellow fever… neither […]
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