- 10 Dec 2012 00:00
- Many felt that author JM Coetzee's honorary doctorate speech at Wits was removed from the realities of SA education. Listen to the speech.
- 17 Sep 2012 00:00
- Listen to the full podcast of our exclusive interview with best selling author Salman Rushdie about his latest book Joseph Anton - A Memoir.
- 24 Aug 2012 00:57 - Craig MacKenzie
- The marginalisation of local languages will continue and nonstandard English is the future to embrace.
- 27 Jul 2012 12:21 - Percy Zvomuya
- Percy Zvomuya spoke to author Siphiwo Mahala about personally translating his book into his native tongue and scribbling notes on toilet paper.
- 19 Aug 2011 13:28 - Sibongile Nkosi
- Although many publications have been produced for the youth market, few tell their stories through the eyes of young people living in the townships.
- 11 Jun 2011 13:14 - Jean-Pierre Campagne
- Freedom of speech is the name of the game in Revolution Square where new publications have blossomed and women recite poetry in public.
- 30 Oct 2009 06:00 - Alison Flood
- Gabriel Gárcia Márquez's seminal novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is the book that has most shaped world literature.
- 26 Nov 2008 16:13 - Randeep Ramesh
- At 35, Chetan Bhagat's chronicling of the trials and tribulations of the country's middle-class youth has made him a publishing phenomenon in India.
- 26 Nov 2008 14:29 - Gwen Ansell
- Gwen Ansell surveys the state of science fiction.
- 20 Nov 2008 06:00 - Stuart Jeffries
- As the global financial crisis tightens its grip, sales of Karl Marx's Das Kapital are booming. Stuart Jeffries offers this handy primer.
- 19 Oct 2008 06:00 -
- He might not be as well known as some of his contemporaries, but it is not surprising that JMG Le Clézio has been awarded the coveted prize.
- 17 Oct 2008 06:00 -
- After Stephen Gray savaged me in the pages of the Mail & Guardian a few weeks ago, I immediately responded, thanks to the new age of blogs.
- 16 Oct 2008 06:00 - Darryl Accone
- Ion Trewin, literary director of the Man Booker Prize, talks to Darryl Accone on the eve of the 40th Booker.
- 02 Oct 2008 06:00 - Martin Wainwright
- A raunchy novel with a dauntless heroine has transformed the lives of a 93-year-old author and three of her friends who were living in nursing homes.
- 04 Sep 2008 06:00 - John Mullan
- The notion of testing yourself against Austen's novels would not have been so unfamiliar to their author.
- 01 Sep 2008 06:00 - Marylin Martin
- Neville Dubow's contribution to critical writing in newspapers and journals is immense; already in the late 1950s he set a standard for art reviews.
- 27 Aug 2008 06:00 - Stuart Jeffries
- It is often said that everybody has a novel in them. The current problem is that so many of us bring that novel out of ourselves and get it published.
- 14 Aug 2008 06:00 - Nosimilo Ndlovu
- South Africans search for bookish answers in a time of political doubt, writes Nosimilo Ndlovu.
- 08 Aug 2008 15:17 - Staff Reporter
- Towering figure of Russian literature and politics who revealed the true horrors of Stalin's labour camps.
- 25 Jun 2008 16:56 - Staff Reporter
- Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday gave British author Salman Rushdie a knighthood. He was knighted for his services to literature.
