Monday, May 19, 2025

Grahamstown Festival Review: Part 2

Laugh It Off satirist and playwright Justin Nurse is delivering his diary experience from the Grahamstown Arts Festival, with all the highs, lows and bizarre happenings.

Ben Trovato Outs Himself

Well this is interesting. Ben Trovato, one of our country’s most celebrated satirists and utterly hilarious writer of ‘The Whipping Boy’ column in the Times, has outed himself!

‘Go Fuck Yourself, Cape Town’ Blog Post Goes Viral – Gets Response

If you haven’t read it yet, now might be the time to do so. Jade Mitchell’s blog received some serious attention last week when she posted a scathing observation about Capetonians and their unwarranted sense of superiority towards themselves and their city. Titled “Go F***ck Yourself Cape Town” , the piece details an array of […]

Rowan Somerville Wins This Year’s Award for Bad Sex In Literature

Since 1993, the Literary Review has presented an annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award for the worst description of a sex scene in a novel – and this year that honour went to Rowan Somerville, who narrowly edged out Franzen and Campbell with the sexy, sexy line “like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her.”