The first issue included a book review in which Campbell praised Plomer's recent novel "Turbott Wolfe". The novel depicted a White artist filling his studio with Black women as his models and sexual partners, much to the outrage of the artist's racist White neighbors. Plomer courted further controversy by ending his novel with an interracial marriage between a Black man and a White woman. For these reasons, Plomer's "Turbott Wolfe" had been dubbed, "A Nasty Book on a Nasty Subject," by the "Natal Advertiser".