Articles
Ageing and Hemingway
A conversation with Michael Conforti
Covid-19 has buckled the world. My country, South Africa, is the latest to bow down and lockdown. And as we all stumble around in the penumbra of this virus, things – longstanding things…
Hello darkness my old friend
An interview with John van der Steur
I once attended a drawing class. It was a dismal event, as I struggled to draw the dappled pear that we had been given. But I was writing a novel about an artist, and I hoped that if I opted for full immersion…
Psychopaths: When cool becomes chilling
A conversation with Aaron Kipnis
‘What is it that makes psychopaths so compelling?’ I asked Dr Aaron Kipnis – psychotherapist, professor, and author of four books – during a recent conversation. I last spoke to Aaron Kipnis about…
Talking to Tina
A conversation with Tina Stromsted
As a little girl, when there was tension in the home, Tina Stromsted would slip out the house into the field next door, and dance. As she twirled and swooped and breathed in the rhythms of Nature…
A matter of money
A conversation with Aaron Kipnis
It occurred to me after speaking to Dr Aaron Kipnis that he is to money what Masters & Johnson were to sex in the 60s and 70s. Core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate School…