As Bafana Bafana ignites the 2025 TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations™ (AFCON) in Morocco, the true heartbeat of South ...

Recently, in a bar, I was reading “In Gratitude,” by the British writer Jenny Diski, when a loud guy with tall hair asked me what it was. I stumbled a little before saying, “It’s a cancer memoir.” I ...

The Vanishing Princess is Jenny Diski’s only collection of short stories, recently published for the first time in the U.S. (it came out in the U.K. in 1995). In her introduction to the book, Heidi ...

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In this inventive retelling of the Abraham and Sarah story, Diski (Skating to Antarctica) offers up a vain, "testy" God, who has created humanity in the hope of gaining insight into Himself. Instead, ...

To my mind, the quintessential Jenny Diski moment comes in her essay “Rape-rape,” published November 2009 in the London Review of Books. Considering the director Roman Polanski’s statutory rape of a ...

No subject was taboo for famously candid English author Jenny Diski, who died in April at the age of 68. Over the course of her career, she wrote frankly on the topics of, as she put it, "sex, drugs ...

The type of South African soccer that has entertained township fans for many years has been called diski. It’s based on short-passing, flair, passion and a love of the game and it’s known as samba ...

Jenny Diski (right) with Doris Lessing (left) who took her in as a teenager The author and essayist Jenny Diski, whose memoir about living with terminal cancer was published last week, has died aged ...