Looking at life from different angles and being wary of fixed identities are at the heart of Veronique Tadjo’s writing.
The esteemed Umberto Eco brings us a weighty volume in <em>The Infinity of Lists</em>. The problem however is, that the book is arm-gnawingly boring.
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/ 26 February 2010
Etienne van Heerden needs no introduction; as a novelist he is honoured both at home and internationally.
As his 12th novel comes out, the novelist admits fearing his decline as a writer and is still wounded by the critics, writes Stephen Moss.
Patti Smith’s memoir, <em>Just Kids</em>, captures all the elements that made 1970s New York so exciting.
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/ 19 February 2010
Fantasy land has been invaded. Sadly, not by anything intriguing or fresh, but by chick-lit.
On his regular Book Safari, David L Smith looks at <em>The Democratic King</em>, a novel by a policeman from Burkina Faso about his ideal Africa.
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/ 12 February 2010
In <em>Kings of the Water</em>, the author weighs the costs of belonging against the perils of expatriation with subtlety and tenderness.
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/ 5 February 2010
Percy Zvomuya celebrates a trove of new essays by the master of the middle way, Chinua Achebe
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/ 21 October 2009
Sello Alcock reviews <em>Hani: A life Too Short</em> by Janet Smith and Beauregard Tromp.
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/ 19 October 2009
<i>M&G</i> editor Nic Dawes shares his thoughts on Sue Williamson’s new book about where the South African art world is at and where it has been.
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/ 30 September 2009
The <i>MaIl & Guardian</i>’s selection of three offerings in South African fiction.
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/ 1 September 2009
Jane Rosenthal discovers a rich interpretation of the human touch in a South African anthology of short fiction.
Reparations and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa form the central focus of a ground-breaking new study of educational transformation
Mokubung Nkomo reviews a book that considers the achievements, challenges and contradictions of educational transformation
Jane Rosenthal explores the complexity of the everyday in Imraan Coovadia’s third novel <em>High low in-between</em>.
As the winter solstice approaches and we tilt into the deepest part of winter, it seems the right time to hibernate with good books.
The <i>M&G</i>’s <i>A-Z of South African Politics</i> is an all-new edition of this best-selling guide for navigating the corridors of power.
The reporter surveys a summer of science fiction and fantasy reading.
Deon Meyer leaves bloody fingerprints all over his books and in the end Assegai misses its mark by a long shot.
Sarah Nuttall’s work challenges received academic
wisdom and personal boundaries, writes Shaun de Waal.
Anne Michaels tells Sarah Crown about her long-awaited follow-up to <i>Fugitive Pieces</i>.
Two new talents expose the reality of Zimbabwean life at home and abroad. Aminatta Forna explains.
Maya Jaggi detects echoes of 9/11 in a story about Chinese totalitarianism.
What makes literature Literature? Peter D McDonald has some answers, writes Shaun de Waal.
David Medalie receives the latest Thomas Pringle Short Story Award for <i>The Mistress’s Dog</i> at a ceremony on March 21 in Johannesburg.
Dillon Davie looks into <i>The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life</i> by Alice Schroeder.
Three hundred years ago Samuel Johnson declared that "no man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money". Irish novelist Colm Toibin afrees.
The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize aims to reward the best Commonwealth fiction written in English by both established and new writers.
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/ 10 February 2009
Jane Riosenthal reviews The Keep and Remembering Herman Charles Bosman — Herman Charles Recollected .
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/ 4 February 2009
Darryl Accone rounds up the hottest reads on China as the Year of the Ox yokes up.
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/ 26 January 2009
Mandy Rossouw finds Jeremy Gordin’s Zuma biography underwhelming.