Brain Porn: The Best of Daily Maverick

by Branko Brkic (Contribution by), Greg Marinovich (Contribution by), Greg Nicolson (Contribution by), Ivo Vegter (Contribution by), J Brooks Spector (Contribution by)

Overview

For the past five years, Daily Maverick has been making sense of the madness that is South African reality. Every day, its team of respected journalists dissects politics and society with a healthy dose of scepticism and a natural loathing of spin-doctoring. Brain Porn offers the best of their astute, irreverent writing. Expect well-argued opinions and fresh analyses of the issues and individuals that make headlines: the Guptas, the President, the Public Protector, the Blade Runner, the Commander-in-Chief and the Ghost of Nkandla. A new order of sociopolitical stimulant, Brain Porn will challenge accepted beliefs and dare you to think differently. With contributions from Ranjeni Munusamy, Richard Poplak, Rebecca Davis, Stephen Grootes, Jay Naidoo, Marianne Thamm, Simon Allison, Greg Nicolson, J Brooks Spector, Greg Marinovich and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780624070689
Publisher:	Tafelberg
Publication date:	10/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Branko is the founder and editor of Daily Maverick. In his 30 years in publishing, he has been the editor of business, politics, technology and wildlife magazines. He has also published fiction and non-fiction books, most of them in Serbian. Although he has never pretended to be a reporter, his wide knowledge of politics (especially in America), combined with his experiences in a disintegrating Yugoslavia, gives him an unusual outlook on events in South Africa.
Greg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and co-author of The Bang-Bang Club. He has spent 25 years as a conflict, documentary and news photographer around the globe. In 2009 he was the recipient of the Nat Nakasa Award for courageous journalism, and is a current Nieman Fellow. His photographs and articles have appeared in top international publications such as Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian, among others.
Greg left his hometown of Melbourne to move to Johannesburg, beset by fears that Australia was going to the dogs. With a camera and a Mac in his bag, he ventures out to cover power and politics, the lives of those included and those excluded. He can sometimes be found at the tavern, searching for a good story or drowning a bad one.
Ivo is a columnist and the author of Extreme Environment, a book on environmental exaggeration and how it harms emerging economies. He grew up in the deep south of Johannesburg, and learned his politics reading the Weekly Mail and Vrye Weekblad at Wits University during the early years of the country’s transition to democracy. Ivo approaches issues from the perspective of individual liberty and free markets. He recently left the city for the peacefulness of living in Knysna, where he continues to write about everything under the sun. He is always right.
Brooks settled in Johannesburg after a career as a US diplomat in Africa and East Asia. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, been a consultant for an international NGO, run a theatre and been a commentator for South African and international print, broadcast and online media, in addition to writing for Daily Maverick from day one. He learned everything he needed to know about politics from Casablanca. He might be cynical about some things, but a late Beethoven string quartet, John Coltrane’s music and a dish of Pad Thai will bring him close to tears.

Read an Excerpt

For the past five years, Daily Maverick has been making sense of the madness that is South African reality. Every day, its team of respected journalists dissects politics and society with a healthy dose of scepticism and a natural loathing of spin-doctoring. Brain Porn offers the best of their astute, irreverent writing. Expect well-argued opinions and fresh analyses of the issues and individuals that make headlines: the Guptas, the President, the Public Protector, the Blade Runner, the Commander-in-Chief and the Ghost of Nkandla. A new order of sociopolitical stimulant, Brain Porn will challenge accepted beliefs and dare you to think differently. With contributions from Ranjeni Munusamy, Richard Poplak, Rebecca Davis, Stephen Grootes, Jay Naidoo, Marianne Thamm, Simon Allison, Greg Nicolson, J Brooks Spector, Greg Marinovich and others.