Tim Adams (one of my favorite Brit writers) profiles Rian Malan, probably the most interesting South African writer active. Here’s the link.
Malan’s a complex fellow, as the piece makes clear. But his 2000 piece on the forgotten African provenance of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” remains one of the best magazine pieces I’ve read, and My Traitor’s Heart is an especially gripping brand of nihilism.
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