Mining threatens the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, a unique wilderness where the fundamentals of life confront you. Go see this KZN Eden.
M&G books editor Darryl Accone picks his top five best reads for this year.
M&G books editor Darryl Accone looks at the implications of the merger of two of the biggest names in publishing.
The 2012 Nobel prize for literature has been awarded to the Chinese writer Mo Yan.
In a South Africa exclusive, M&G books editor Darryl Accone speaks to award-winning writer Salman Rushdie about his new memoir ‘Joseph Anton’.
Darryl Accone previews the line-up for the Mail & Guardian’s annual celebration of literature.
It has been a sad and bad year for the book world in Johannesburg.
Jo’burg’s past, present and future hold rich challenges for writers and analysts.
Denis Hirson’s forthcoming novel, <em>Lemon Street,</em> fits perfectly into the session Memories of the City.
Johannesburg’s 125th birthday is the centrepiece and main theme for this year’s <i>M&G</i> Literary Festival running from September 2 to September 4.
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/ 22 February 2011
After the US’s invasion of Iraq, the American military took to reading TE Lawrence’s <i>Seven Pillars of Wisdom</i> for after-the-act advice.
Reviewers stand accused of being sycophantic about local books. Well, that is going to change.
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/ 5 November 2010
Every generation insists on its translations of the classics.
<i>M&G</i> books editor <b>Darryl Accone</b> shares his views on the event that occurred over the weekend.
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/ 3 September 2010
The <i>M&G</i> Literary Festival picks up from its
predecessor and takes stock of where we are at.
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/ 2 September 2010
Freedom of the word will rule at the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> Literary Festival that begins at 7 pm on September 3.
In the tradition of the <i>Weekly Mail</i> Book Week, this festival aims to revivify Jo’burg’s cultural landscape.
They came. They saw. They conquered. Except, sadly, they didn’t.
German-Romanian writer Herta Müller is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009. Müller has been an outsider since birth.
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/ 23 September 2009
For self-styled SABCs (South African-born Chinese), fitting in has been a constant challenge eagerly embraced.
What a difference seven days make. Here is a tale of two weekends, with two widely divergent aims and outcomes.
Darryl Accone gives a rundown of the frontrunners for the Alan Paton and <i>Sunday Times</i> awards.
It has been a prodigal summer, lavish in rain, sunshine squandered by days of sheet-grey clouds.
The Franschhoek Literary Festival (FLF) boasts a large contingent of regular participants and a smattering of debutants.
‘Tell our stories" went the post-apartheid creative mantra in film and literature. A golden age beckoned, unfettered by censorship.
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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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/ 25 December 2008
There’s a move afoot locally to hustle crime fiction into the thriller category. Evangelisers of this new gospel say crime is a reminder of SA reality
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/ 17 October 2008
Ion Trewin, literary director of the Man Booker Prize, talks to Darryl Accone on the eve of the 40th Booker.
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/ 11 September 2008
China-watching has never been so popular — or lucrative. Publishers can’t get enough of scholarship, punditry and fiction about China.
Allan Kolski Horwitz explains independently minded publishing collective Botsotso, while Darryl Accone applauds Colleen Higgs’s award-winning work.
Alexander McCall Smith, creator of the peerless Mma Ramotswe, talks about hs new adventure, <i>The Miracle at Speedy Motors</i>.
If the Cape Town Book Fair is to mean something beyond an exercise in retailing it needs to seize opportunities to be unique, writes Darryl Accone.