More than 20 years ago, a young white woman was killed by a mob in Cape Town.

What does the murder and its aftermath say about South African society today?

Justine Vanderloon is here to talk about her book, We Are Not Such Things.

A lot of the parts of this sort of tidy and very inspiring narrative, which remains very

inspiring, sort of fell apart and it became really elusive.

Do the modern Olympic spare any resemblance to the games of Ancient Greece?

David Gould-Black will join us to talk about his book, The Games, A Global History of the Olympics.

People have forgotten what the Olympics were sort of envisaged as when they were first

elaborated as a display of manly virtue for which the reward is the quiet applause of women.

We'll also talk literary news, more of your favorite summer books ever, and the books we

at the Book Review are reading right now.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review, I'm Pamela Paul.

In 1993, a white American full-bright scholar in Cape Town named Amy Beale was murdered

in a black township when a mob set upon her car.

She was 26 years old.

Four men eventually went to prison for the crime while Beale's wealthy parents founded

a humanitarian organization in her name.

This became the accepted narrative around the world.

But when Justine Van Der Loon began digging into the story of Beale's murder, she found

that accounts of what had happened to Beale and what happened afterwards varied widely.

Her book about the murder and the aftermath is called We Are Not Such Things, and she joins

us now.

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