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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 28, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Daily Maverick
- Top 50K sites
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- Jul 27, 2026
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Half Lives: The book exploring intimate-partner violence with nuanced sensitivity (opens the original)
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Krystle Zara Appiahâs Half Lives explores sisters, migration, motherhood and intimate-partner violence, offering a nuanced portrait of women surviving complicated lives. I almost didnât pick up Krystle Zara Appiahâs Half Lives. Not because I had heard anything bad about it. Quite the opposite: several people whose reading I trust had recommended it. But my work is related to gender-based violence, and there are times when I feel saturated by stories about intimate-partner violence. I wasnâ
Your next book reads: Eerie magical realism and a sex-positive guide (opens the original)
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As winter reluctantly slips away, here are your latest reading recommendations: one that will keep you up at night, and one that will keep you up at night for entirely different reasons. I made the mistake of reading the first story in Philisiwe Twijnstraâs Flying Cows and Other Traumas late at night. I wonât say why. The reason is a spoiler, and you deserve to walk into it unaccompanied, at an hour when the house makes its own noises. I will say only that I put the book down properly fright
Go inward and let it spill outward: Reclaiming the erotic as joy and connection (opens the original)
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The erotic is not a luxury: it is the pulse of being fully alive, in music, in skin, in sunlight, in love. Your body is not a vessel to be endured but a site of possibility and joy. It has been waiting for you. The music was Amr Diab. The air still carried cumin and roasted lamb. Dinner was done, the wine was open, and my friends were pressing me to show them what Iâd been learning at belly dance class. I laughed it off, shy. They kept at it. Finally I tucked the hem of my top into the strap o
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