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The Mistress's Dog

David Medalie receives the latest Thomas Pringle Short Story Award for The Mistress's Dog at a ceremony on March 21 in Johannesburg.

A work of genius

The book was published after the death of the Chilean- Spanish writer in 2003, aged 50, the 900- page novel is in five parts

Dissecting the covert

The reporter surveys a summer of science fiction and fantasy reading.

Summer's pleasures

It has been a prodigal summer, lavish in rain, sunshine squandered by days of sheet-grey clouds.

South African suspense

Deon Meyer leaves bloody fingerprints all over his books and in the end Assegai misses its mark by a long shot.

In search of pace and plot

There is a good reason to read the following books: Dante's Number, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and Blue Religion.

History and mystery

Stephen L Carter writes novels about the black American bourgeoisie and shoves in the odd murder to disguise his work as crime fiction

Jo'burg: city in transit

Clive Chipkin's latest work about Johannesburg's architectural evolution from the 1950s is enthralling and should be cherished.

'Some symbols may be found'

What makes literature Literature? Peter D McDonald has some answers, writes Shaun de Waal.

An unwelcome distraction

The opening, last week, of the nominations process for the four upcoming vacancies at the Constitutional Court was a welcome relief.