Mark Gevisser is an author and freelance journalist. He writes the review-essay column "The Monthly Review" for the South African Business Day. Gevisser's work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Granta, and the New York Review of Books, and in anthologies, on sexual politics, culture, art, literature and urbanism in South Africa. His first book, "Portraits of Power: Profiles in a Changing South Africa," was published in 1996.