“gillian slovo”

"Written with the Pace of a thriller" (Times Literary Supplement), Red Dust is set in a rural South African town, where three people are about to meet their past. Sarah Barcant has left her law career in New York to assist an old friend as prosecutor on a Truth Commission hearing. Dirk Hendricks, a ... More

Irina Davydovna is a cleaner. She has no time for poliics or even, for that matter, people: 'rules and rules may come and go, but dirt never changes.' Boris aleksandrovich is a revolutionary. He thinks he understands power. But this is Leningrad in 1933 and Stalin is about to turn against their city... More

Weaving together personal stories, legal opinion and political debate, "Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom" looks at the questions surrounding the detentions in Guantanamo Bay and asks how much damage is being done to Western democratic values during the "war on terror." A critical success in... More

A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid white activists, a daughter who ... More

The long drawn out and heavily politicized presidential election process in 2000 with the winner - Republican George W. Bush--taking a smaller percentage of the popular vote than his Democratic rival, raised important issues of legitimacy. The September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washingto... More

Despite its long history, the factory has a particular appeal to modern architects, who have often preferred this building type as "authentic" architecture to the grand public buildings and luxury private dwellings of the contemporary city. Many European architects who looked to America for inspirat... More