{"title":"Columns, Essays","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9780639895000","title":"A Roving Eye","description":"\u003cp\u003eR.W. Johnson’s articles and essays are endlessly copied and recirculated, not just in Southern Africa but far more widely—not only because of their acuity, but because of his exceptional range of interests.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a former Oxford don and prolific contributor to the international press, Johnson has no equal as an observer and interpreter of national and world events. Whether he is writing about politics in South Africa, Europe or the USA, the new space race, leading personalities of our time, or even soccer, his views are always sharp, clear, highly informed, and original.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese essays are very much in the tradition of George Orwell. Orwell once said that his aim was to make political writing an art form in itself, yet some of his most memorable essays—such as those on boys’ comics—revealed a mind with interests far beyond politics alone. Johnson’s writing shares this same quality. Like Orwell’s essays, these pieces can be read one after another or dipped into at random, always with the assurance of finding something startling and original.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is A Roving Eye—a book that is not only unusual, but unique, with a depth, range, humanity, and sophistication far beyond the ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+R.W.+Johnson\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eR.W. Johnson\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"R.W. 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Threaded through the pieces in this collection are questions of friendship and human community, of environmental destruction and repair, of landscape and memory. 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Nobody escapes his critical pen, from Kenny Kunene, Miriam Makeba to Oscar Pistorius. 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