Richard Poplak: 5 books

"Until Julius Comes" is a boisterous, unprecedented journey through the wilds of South African politics in an election year. With his sharp wit and perceptive observations, Richard Poplak exposes the tricks of the political trade and the skulduggery that comes with it. Writing under the...

The story of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong isn’t just about the greatest doping conspiracy in sports history—it's about the nature of corruption, whether in athletics, business, politics or society at large.   Blending memoir that recounts his own family’s struggles with cancer and reportage...

FREE sample excerpt of Pop Sandbox' groundbreaking releases, KENK and The Next Day. KENK is an award-winning 300-page hybrid of comic book and long form journalism surrounding "the world's most prolific bicycle thief" (The New York Times), named a Best Book of the Year by Quill & Quire. The Next Day...

KENK is an award-winning 300-page journalistic comic book surrounding Igor Kenk, the worlds most prolific bicyclethief (The New York Times, The Guardian). In the summer of 2008, Kenk was arrested and nearly 3,000 bicycles were seized in what became one of the biggest news stories of the year. Built from...

Running like a red thread through this book are the manifestations of Sino-African relations dating back many centuries. In this way, The Rise and Decline and Rise of China: Searching for an Organising Philosophy takes forward the work MISTRA conducted on the Mapungubwe society, one of the advanced...