Exploding supernovas of passion: the bad sex awards
Maev KennedyMathematics professor scoops bad sex award with "quirky" and "wildly experimental" scenes of lust.
Meersman's follow-up novel is history come alive
Jane RosenthalThe novel, Five Lives at Noon provides a detailed account of the events that led to the demise of legislated apartheid.
Max du Preez's latest book brings spring early to SA
Shaun de WaalMax du Preez's new book "A Rumour of Spring" is an insightful look at where the country is today and how we got here.
CAR insists president is in talks with war lord Kony
The CAR's president has insisted he has been negotiating with Joseph Kony after Washington rubbished claims that Kony was involved in any talks.
The tragedies, trials and tribulations of being a teen today.
Pat SchwartzYoung adult book lovers are in for a great reading summer.
Comfort is hard to find
Jane RosenthalA poignant debut novel reflects on life and love in a conservative farming community in the Free State.
Someone to accompany us
Craig MacKenzieTo mark novelist Nadine Gordimer's 90th birthday,Craig MacKenzie celebrates how her work has astutely interpreted the tenor of our times.
How South Africa's authors make a killing, crime after crime
Jane RosenthalCrime fiction continues to soar. Why this is is frequently debated.
Rekindling a love of storytelling
Kamila ShamsieDonna Tartt's epic of art and loss is an astonishing achievement, writes Kamila Shamsie.
Boxed into dead-end despair
Stephen GrayBiography of Nat Nakasa provides an incomplete picture of the maverick Durban-born writer who killed himself in New York at the tender age of 28.
The nomad who lived in voices of others
Lorna SageThe oldest winner of the Nobel prize for literature, Doris Lessing was seen as a visionary and pioneer of the feminist movement.
JFK: A conspiracy of echoes
Rory CarrollTheories about the death of John F Kennedy are in overdrive as the 50th anniversary of his death approaches — even John Kerry is weighing in.
Nat Nakasa: Boxed into dead-end despair
Stephen GrayThe biography of Nat Nakasa provides an incomplete picture of the maverick Durban-born writer who killed himself in New York at the tender age of 28.
Gordimer: Lauded abroad, but too sharp for whites in SA
Jane RosenthalJane Rosenthal takes a critic's and a reader's look at Nadine Gordimer's work.
Writing by the flash of fireflies
Karen LazarIn short stories Nadine Gordimer's pen is at its most lucid, establishing this often-underrated text form as a handsome far-reaching genre.
Nobel prize-winning author Doris Lessing dies
The Nobel Prize-winning British author Doris Lessing has died at the age of 94.
Prepare to be horrified: Stephen King writes sequel to 'The Shining'
Over 35 years after Stephen King's "The Shining" was first published, the horror writer has discussed its sequel titled "Doctor Sleep".
Davids is turning back on black
Percy ZvomuyaA notable debut novel - "The Blacks of Cape Town" - explores how complex issues of race colour South Africa's past, present and future.
Cave clans bear up under SF's stern lens
Gwen AnsellShaman explores the boundaries that divide science fiction imagination and history in order to try and explain who we are.
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