Dropping in on Austen's own reading group
The notion of testing yourself against Austen's novels would not have been so unfamiliar to their author.
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A wonderful egg-head for art and freedom
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.
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Read this -- if you don't want to read
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.
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Political books go pop
South Africans search for bookish answers in a time of political doubt, writes Nosimilo Ndlovu.
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Bard of the Gulag
Towering figure of Russian literature and politics who revealed the true horrors of Stalin's labour camps.
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Rushdie receives knighthood from British queen
Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday gave British author Salman Rushdie a knighthood. He was knighted for his services to literature.
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A stunted af(fair)
If the Cape Town Book Fair is to mean something beyond an exercise in retailing it needs to seize opportunities to be unique, writes Darryl Accone.
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Building SA's house of literature
Meg Samuelson asks if we can leave open the door to the South African literary house.
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