Shaun de Waal applauds David Attwell’s survey of JM Coetzee’s manuscripts and notes to self.
His dissident views made him a renegade communist, but a new biography confirms Harold Wolpe as an influential radical voice.
Writing history is often a matter of rewriting earlier histories as present perspectives shift and change.
The current Spy vs Spy farce summons a sense of déjà vu, with a CIA spook lurking in every nook.
Besides being a beloved teacher for nearly six decades, Brink was something of a literary powerhouse, writes Shaun de Waal about André Brink.
Okay, it was an election year, but 2014 saw ever more books on South African politics emerge. Shaun de Waal rounds up the most notable of them.
Three new books explore the topic of conflict and how it has shaped the world as we know it.
Mazrui opposed colonialism and the Western exploitation of Africa, but also opposed socialist and Marxist solutions, promoting "African liberalism".
Shaun de Waal interviews leading Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, who is visiting South Africa.
The late writer’s oeuvre was characterised by her unwavering ability to verbalise the brutal truth, writes Sean O’Toole.