This week’s list was compiled by Milisuthando Bongela, Kwanele Sosibo and Lloyd Gedye.
A son who has every reason to be angry puts on public display a story that reflects understanding and love.
Images of isolation, patriarchy and judgment are vividly and unusually relayed in his new short story.
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.
‘Up Up’ looks through the lens of history at grand city centre architecture and tells the stories of those who’ve lived and worked in the buildings.
Author and creative writing teacher Han Kang has won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel ‘The Vegetarian’.
The Mail & Guardian speaks to African Flavour Books owner Fortescue Helepi at the Time of the Writer festival hosted in Durban this week.
Authors and audiences attempt to chart a new path for the literary world and knowledge production at this year’s Time of the Writer festival.
“So you’d rather I focus on, ‘Why can’t we go back to the state that allocated 85% of resources to me and my kin?’?”
Why not while away the rest of the holidays with one of the books on the M&G critics’ radar?
If all whites had left and their wealth divided among the poor, poverty would hardly have been dented, says Haffajee in What if There Were No Whites?
A leading author has railed against gender specific literature for children and adults, calling it brainwashing.
First it was baking, then knitting. Now the colouring in craze has hit SA, with addicts claiming it helps with anything from stress to concentration.
Fox captures the bitterness about the treatment of Boer women and children in Lord Kitchener’s concentration camps – under his Scorched Earth policy.
It started with an appeal for books after protesters razed municipal facilities and now has an office, storage space and a vegetable garden.
A new book by Deborah James illustrates how capital finds new means to exploit those most vulnerable.
A headmaster’s memoir dips into risqué territory, but what principles lie behind the lurid prose?
A new book considers the ‘diplomatic afterlife’ of Mandela in relation to former presidents Carter, Clinton and Blair.
A new book considers the ‘diplomatic afterlife’ of Mandela in relation to former presidents Carter, Clinton and Blair.
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‘The Journal Of A South African Zombie Apocalypse’ tells the story of courage, devotion and self-sacrifice, writes Pat Schwartz.
Author Paulo Coelho, famous for his books on spiritual themes, speaks about his new book ‘Adultery’, and why passion is more exciting than happiness.
A look at a series of books by two authors who mission onto the streets of Johannesburg to discover the vibrancy that makes the city a home for many.
Pro and amateur writers are dusting off old plots, sprucing up characters and polishing book settings in readiness for National Novel Writing Month.
Poverty means bad jobs, credit and housing. But even worse is the assumption you aren’t trying hard enough, as Linda Tirado’s angry memoir proves.
Economist Kevin Lings highlights agricultural disappointments in an extract from his book ‘The Missing Piece: Solving South Africa’s Economic Puzzle’.
Despite a change in rules that sparked fears Americans would dominate the prize, the final Man Booker longlist reflects a ‘vintage year’ of fiction.
"Amazon has done more to liberate readers and writers than any other entity since Gutenberg," states a petition in the war on book selling.
One of the most celebrated poets of World War I was, for a short time, the toast of local society.
Jane Rosenthal reviews ‘Dark Windows’ by Louis Greenberg and ‘Half of One Thing’ by Zirk van den Berg.
Roxandra Dardagan Britz and Dan Wylie’s witty and beautiful collaboration of poetry and printmaking smoulders with the artists’ passion.
SA has few independent bookshops, almost no worthwhile reviewing and certainly no cult of the reviewer as there is in Britain or the US.
The intricate book covers Dale Halvorsen designs are at once gripping trailers and accurate visual summaries of the stories that lie beneath them.