Writing it more real than reality could be

Quite simply, Elmore Leonard is just the great American novelist of the great American comedy.

Spring fever: Arab writers reflect on a tumultuous year

A year after it began, eight Arab writers reflect on what became known as the Arab Spring.

Salman Rushdie will attend Jaipur festival despite protest

The Satanic Verses author's latest visit to his Indian homeland has angered some Muslim clerics.

Naipaul dismisses 'sentimental' women authors

Nobel-winning writer VS Naipaul faced criticism on Thursday for saying he does not regard any female authors as his equal.

Talking authors: Nthikeng Mohlele

The Mail & Guardian is running a series of interviews with South African authors. Nthikeng Mohlele takes up the challenge.

So many books, not enough care

'Tell our stories" went the post-apartheid creative mantra in film and literature. A golden age beckoned, unfettered by censorship.

Dark voice who gave life to 'Desperate Housewives'

James Purdy, who has died aged 94, wrote outlandish, idiosyncratic novels that did not sell in large quantities but survive, sometimes in print.

Victim of the 'assassination of the author'?

It takes a lot to make him break his silence -- Kundera has given few interviews in the past 25 years.

A perfect, riceless Xmas

Okey Ndibe describes how two grand old men of modern African literature saved his career -- and his Christmas.

Ghost in the machine

What, wonders Stephanie Merritt, drives "real" authors to ghostwrite celebrity bestsellers?

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