Aida Edemariam

Entranced visitors keep coming back to the Greek island’s south coast — and especially to one remote taverna, writes Aida Edemariam.

Wars have always been waged on all sorts of fronts. They have also, of course, always been about words.

Taking discarded copper pipes was once the preserve of the petty thief, but now there’s big money in copper theft, reports Aida Edemariam from London.

The rise of the author as performer has been accompanied by the rise of a sometimes baffling phenomenon: the signing queue.

In 2005, a Nobel prize-winning economist began the painstaking process of calculating the true cost of the Iraq war. In his new book, he reveals how short-sighted budget…

Brains being our centres of personality, vision, hearing, motor control, consciousness and, in short, everything that makes us functioning and human, there is a reason why they…

Once, you might have been stuck for the word to describe an unsightly tummy bulge protruding over low-rise jeans. But “muffin top” is one of hundreds of new words and phrases,…

In public, at least, they seem remarkably unfazed by what they have done. And in some senses, of course, they needn’t be. They are a loving couple, who have been together for…

Aida Edemariam profiles Orhan Pamuk and the writings that won him this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature.

A letter sent this week to the Mail & Guardian Online heart-rendingly underscores how bad conditions are in many townships.

”There is a still moment near the end of Gillian Slovo’s 1997 family memoir when, in the cold of 5am, just after her father has died, Nelson Mandela says exactly the right…

Yann Martel’s first two books sank without trace. But this year he won the Booker Prize. Aida Edemariam meets him.