Recently, in a bar, I was reading “In Gratitude,” by the British writer Jenny Diski, when a loud guy with tall hair asked me what it was. I stumbled a little before saying, “It’s a cancer memoir.” I ...
Mpho “Phopho” Padime bagged a brace on the day while defender Cristian Derbyshire also got his name on the score-sheet. The win sees the Buccaneers remain top of the Diski Challenge table, three ...
WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST DO WHAT YOU WERE TOLD? By Jenny Diski. Bloomsbury. 432 pages. $28. Jenny Diski’s death of lung cancer in 2016 left a Diski-sized gap in the pages of the “London Review of Books,” ...
The Vanishing Princess is Jenny Diski’s only collection of short stories, recently published for the first time in the U.S. (it came out in the U.K. in 1995). In her introduction to the book, Heidi ...
To my mind, the quintessential Jenny Diski moment comes in her essay “Rape-rape,” published November 2009 in the London Review of Books. Considering the director Roman Polanski’s statutory rape of a ...
It was a weekend marked by mixed fortunes in the DStv Diski Challenge, as log leaders Orlando Pirates, reigning champions Kaizer Chiefs, and title contenders Stellenbosch FC all fell short of securing ...
The first in a series of stories about the upcoming World Cup in South Africa, which begins June 11. “There’s a style in which South Africans play soccer. It’s always flair-y, it’s always showy and it ...
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