Remembering Mandela,Swipe and Other News

By Sadie Stein

On the Shelf

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  • “To have lived one’s life at the same time, and in the same natal country, as Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a guidance and a privilege we South Africans shared.” Nadine Gordimer pays tribute.
  • In depressing news: the thirty-five-year-old National Poetry Series is in danger of closing, due to monetary issues.
  • Word is details of Morrissey’s relationship with Jake Owen Walters have been bowdlerized from the U.S. edition of his autobiography.
  • Pixies frontman Black Francis is writing a graphic novel. (Cue failure to come up with non-lame pun relating to any Pixies lyric.)
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