A question

What do we owe the people we love?

Duty is not the enemy of love. It is one of love’s disguises, and sometimes its honorable name.

• Héloïse Will Not Be a Plot

  A teacher, a student, a secret marriage, then a mutilation. The Latin that survives is not a romance. It is her refusal to let desire be converted into a useful wound.

• Special Licence

  Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, Motswana, courts Elizabeth M'belle, Mfengu, in a diamond town that does not make mixed families easy. They marry by special licence. The letters of the rocky courtship we paraphrase; the marriage we can date.