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Stigmata for my father
As the classic form of the elegy shows, memory can be especially potent when allowed to coalesce around the loss of a loved one.
Judging a book by its title
F Scott Fitzgerald and company produce great literature, but titles are often best left to publishers.
Recording a petulant soul
Ronnie Govender's autobiography shows he is a triple-threat man -- in sports, the theatre and literature.
Invention of plot
The murder of a small boy at Road Hill House shocked Britain and was a cause celebre even further afield.
Badass redefined
Barbara Ludman reviews new police procedurals and a courtroom drama.
A luta continua!
It is a brave new world that the third edition of the Cape Town Book Fair, subtitled Words Create Worlds, encounters from June 14.
Analysis paralysis?
Teenagers are notorious for giving their parents a hard time -- so apparently are countries.
Lucifer's language
For the Sake of Silence (in which the narrator frequently meditates on the undesirability of words) extends to 550 pages.
Cell-lit is all the rage
Could the cellphone novel be the next big thing in publishing?