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African science fiction: rereading the The Palm-Wine Drinkard

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An activist’s encounter with an attractive waitress leads her to take an inventory of her own body in Mercy Thokozane Minah’s ‘The Sweetest Ache’

Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’

Friday Theresa Mallinson - 12 Nov 2020

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Obituary: Literary allrounder Stephen Gray was a scholar, critic, novelist and poet

Friday Shaun De Waal - 3 Nov 2020

Stephen Gray made an immense, long contribution to the South African literary landscape across many genres, but it was poetry that he described as ‘the main activity of my life’

Review: ‘Afterland’ — a novel that foreshadows the Covid-19 pandemic

Article Theresa Mallinson - 23 Apr 2020

For the past five years, Lauren Beukes has been working on a book set in the aftermath of a global epidemic. Its release couldn’t have been more timely

Achieving the litmus test of social relevance

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Feb 2020

The HSS Awards honours scholarly works based on their social relevance and contribution to the humanities and social sciences

The last summer of reason

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Madness at the launch of a book about … madness

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The Durban unveiling of Mishka Hoosen’s first novel was a cacophony of meandering threads, yet there was something oddly appealing about it.

Winning novels examples of newfound writing freedom

Article Staff Reporter - 25 Jun 2015

Noted novelist Zakes Mda and debut writer Penny Busetto have won the University of Johannesburg awards with "Rachel's Blue" and "The Story of Anna P".

Write off the next 30 days, it’s a novel experience

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Oct 2014

Pro and amateur writers are dusting off old plots, sprucing up characters and polishing book settings in readiness for National Novel Writing Month.

African writing: Fact, fiction, or faction?

Article Staff Reporter - 6 Mar 2014

Authors are activists of the pen – visionaries whose purpose it is to show us the real world, and the world that we should want to have.

Detective fiction stories tramp a new beat

Article Gwen Ansell - 30 Jan 2014

Book reviews: Fresh contexts for a veteran and a novice result in two very compelling and readable crime thrillers.

A peek through the world of science fiction

Article Gwen Ansell - 30 Jan 2014

Book reviews: Gwen Ansell takes us through four interesting novels.

Selective memory keeps Carrim in the local loop

Article Verashni Pillay - 23 Jan 2014

Being SA's communications minister takes up a lot of Yunus Carrim's time. But this is what he reads when he can.

Untitled: Prey to ?his decay

Article Jane Rosenthal - 23 Jan 2014

In "Untitled", Kgebetli Moele brings home the travesty of the "respectable" men who destroy women's dreams.

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