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/ 25 November 2008
Insomnia can be a wonderful thing, as Percy Zvomuya discovered.
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/ 20 November 2008
Zachariah Rapola’s Noma Award-winning short-story collection could be the beginnings of a dream literary life. Percy Zvomuya talks to its author.
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/ 7 November 2008
Literary great Es’kia Mphahlele will pass on his intellectual legacy to many generations to come.
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/ 30 October 2008
For those less-noticed regions of design, this book will not be of much use, though it does have some helpful introductory guides to typography.
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/ 17 October 2008
Shaun de Waal reviews two books by Paul Holden and Brian Pottinger that highlight Thabo Mbeki’s legacy.
There is a legitimate suspicion that Woolmer essentially wrote a rather narrowly focused coaching manual.
Reviewing three novels by white male authors prompts Jane Rosenthal to re-examine the male protagonist in post-apartheid literature.
After examining the most spectacular instance of the fine line between creativity and cribbing in SA literature, Stephen Gray writes about Zakes Mda.
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/ 24 September 2008
Niren Tolsi reflects on a meeting of minds across the Indian Ocean.
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/ 24 September 2008
Maureen Brady reviews a fascinating volume about the history of the Cradle of Humankind.
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/ 18 September 2008
Percy Zvomuya reports on a new brand of kiddies’ music that doesn’t ‘dumb it down’.
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/ 17 September 2008
Not all academics are pointy-heads aloof from the world. Henry Trotter converted his PhD into the page-turner <i>Sugar Girls & Seamen </i>.
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/ 9 September 2008
Wicomb’s latest short-story collection is an indispensable addition to the bookshelves of serious lovers of South African fiction.
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/ 9 September 2008
A feast of new South African crime novels criss-crosses various genres, writes Barbara Ludman.
Twelve-year-old Sarah Coppings speaks to children’s author Niki Daly about his latest book.
Allan Kolski Horwitz explains independently minded publishing collective Botsotso, while Darryl Accone applauds Colleen Higgs’s award-winning work.
If plays stay on stage, never making their way on to the page, South Africans could lose an important aspect of their culture. But not if Robin Malan’
Tracey Farren’s debut novel <i>Whiplash</i> is the redemptive story of Tess, a Muizenberg sex worker. This is an extract from the book.
Judges agree that Ceridwen Dovey’s <i>Blood Kin</i> is the pick of the bunch. Craig MacKenzie reports.
Henrietta Rose-Innes, winner of the 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story Poison, talks about bringing home the ‘African Booker’.
Shaun de Waal reviews <i>Verhale</i>, the single-volume collection of Koos Prinsloo’s short fictions
Meg Samuelson asks if we can leave open the door to the South African literary house.