The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of 1996 was
supposed to uncover the facts about South Africa’s
apartheid past - Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza looks into why the
Commission has been a failure. Then Diane Middlebrook
offers her interpretation of the Sylvia Plath-Ted Hughes
marriage. And New Yorker cartoonists Robert Mankoff and Bruce McCall talk about their magazine's upcoming comic issue.
Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza
According to Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza, a Cape Town lawyer and visiting professor at the University of Connecticut, South Africa hasn’t confronted its apartheid past. He’s co-author of the recent book Unfinished Business: South Africa, Apartheid and Truth.
Music: Kronos Quartet Pieces of Africa
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Bruce McCall and Robert Mankoff
Frequent New Yorker contributor Bruce McCall shares his latest book. It's called All Meat Looks Like South America, and in it he explains things like "The Rise and Fall of the Butter Tart: A Brief But Exhaustive History of Canada's ...
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