Transport is not a ministry the ambitious should accept: no transport minister has gone on to be prime minister. — Justin Cartwright Accept Copy Share Image
James McBride's 'The Good Lord Bird' is set in the mid-19th century and is based on the real life of John Brown,… — Justin Cartwright Bird Copy Share Image
Nadine Gordimer came over just before she died. She didn't want to talk about books or the arts, but about the abuse… — Justin Cartwright Abuse Copy Share Image
Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good. — Justin Cartwright Advertising Copy Share Image
I always assumed I could never make a living out of literary fiction, and I was right. When I did try, it… — Justin Cartwright Always Copy Share Image
Franschhoek - French Corner - is a place which serves South Africans as a kind of sophisticated fantasy, an alternative version of… — Justin Cartwright Fantasy Copy Share Image
'Homer and Langley' is the work of E. L. Doctorow's old age. There are fewer Homeric references than you might have expected,… — Justin Cartwright Age Copy Share Image
As I read 'The Infinities', with its magical, playful richness, its sensuous delight in the power of language to convey the strangeness… — Justin Cartwright Beauty Copy Share Image
I thought that, post-apartheid, there would be absolutely no interest in South Africa. That has been both true and untrue. The major… — Justin Cartwright Apartheid Copy Share Image
In Sydney, I gave what was billed as a masterclass to bright students of writing at the University of Sydney. But the… — Justin Cartwright Books Copy Share Image
The ANC was the product of a much earlier South Africa, a gradualist and non-tribal multi-racial organisation, driven to violence by the… — Justin Cartwright Afrikaner Copy Share Image
