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  • August 4, 2024

    Exploring Folk Horror: Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

    Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh takes the folk horror story form towards disturbing, often funny, conclusions.

    Book Review
  • July 13, 2024

    The Clarion Call: How South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Represents Change

    The EFF’s aesthetic is always brought back to revolutionary images in part because they work so hard to remind South Africans of the change they possess. 

    Essay
  • June 20, 2024

    The Tilted Pentagram: An Occult Fiction Novel by Matthew MacDevette

    The Tilted Pentagram is, at heart, a story of adventure, self-discovery, and expressing the magic humans feel they must keep inside. Its characters are eccentric at times and sympathetic when it matters.

    Book Review
  • June 12, 2024

    Psychological Horror and the Creation of Unknown Entities

    An impossible exorcism of Lovecraft from the genre might just be the only call for action I can make. Or at least a re-look at his influence to better understand the limits set where one cannot see beyond him. 

    Essay
  • May 26, 2024

    Netflix’s Inkabi is a Bad Movie

    The way that Netflix uses the Inkabi lore feels like they wanted a tale with an African spiritual spin and did not think it necessary to make it make sense.

    Film Review
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Kris Van der Bijl frequently covers South African literature, Western Cape business news, and Southern African politics and culture.

His work can be found in the likes of World Literature Today, Wasafiri, News24, and Cape Business News.


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