An interview with J. Michael Shell.

Adam Gauntlett discusses the crime fiction of Chester Himes.

And our main fiction is War, by Sandra Jensen.

Apart from Religion, school was torture. Lines of white chalk scraping into my head. I sat at the back where on good days I could see Hillbrow Tower out the window piercing Johannesburg’s sky like a pin. Today was a crappy day and I didn’t care if I could see it or not. We had netball later and I hated netball. Miss Hadley was telling us about the Boer War. I hated the Boer War.