​SinceToni Morrison (1993), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) and Saul Bellow (1976), American authors have got short shrift from the Nobel.
A founder of the University of the Western Cape, Adam Small died at the weekend at the age of 79.
Author defines apartheid to describe situation in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Awards season is upon us once more – that time in late autumn when authors turn to thoughts of riches that will be made known in midwinter.
Bridge Books looks to change Johannesburg’s book dealing landscape.
From Shakespeare to ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’, writers have been saucing up their literary efforts since time immemorial – with mixed results.
French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s writings from 1755 could have well been written today, about South Africa.
The bard has been dead for 400 years, yet he speaks from the grave as clearly and wisely as ever.
The religious underpinnings of South African fiction have been eroded by the secularisation of our society since 1994, with one striking exception.
Eco, who has died at the age of 84, bestrode the disparate worlds of Âpopular fiction and critical thinking with panache.