Mark Gevisser

Fragile Unity in South Africa

Short of a majority for the first time in three decades, the African National Congress now has to govern with its longtime rival. Will the alliance hold?

Crossing the ‘Pink Line’

“Globally, the new battleground is over so-called gender ideology. This is defining the next human rights frontier.”

‘Moffie’ and Me

South African filmmakers are confronting an aspect of the apartheid era that marked my generation: an abusive masculinity defined by its homophobia.

Pandemic Journal

Dispatches from around the world documenting the coronavirus outbreak

Pandemic Journal, March 17–22

Dispatches on the coronavirus outbreak from Madeleine Schwartz in Brooklyn, Anne Enright in Dublin, Joshua Hunt in Busan, Anna Badkhen in Lalibela, Lauren Groff in Gainesville, and more.

Coetzee's Boyhood Photos

J.M. Coetzee gave up photography, he says, because of a lack of empathy and curiosity. But one must take these protestations with a pinch of salt, for he came to understand the way storytelling was driven by not being allowed across a threshold, by imagining what might lurk beyond it.

Cattle King President

If Ramaphosa is indeed the playmaker and reformer he has claimed to be, he faces his toughest test now, in the days immediately after his victory: what to do about Jacob Zuma.