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Write stuff: American author John Steinbeck, on the left, with the Russian painter Martiros Saryan

Where is today’s Steinbeck?

This era in politics is crying out for a great chronicler in the mould of the American writer

President Cyril Ramaphosa intends taking on legal review the section 89 independent panel’s adverse report on Phala Phala released earlier this week.
(Brenton Geach/EPA)

Consolidating government finances is a tall order

Ramaphosa needs to build broad political consensus if he is to have any chance of pursuing his fiscal and structural reform agenda

Jan Guillou declines an invitation for probing in Anna Odell’s Undersökningen (The Examination). (Courtesy of Göteborg Film Festival)

The Insider’s guide to travelling without moving: Power, empathy and threads that connect at the Göteborg Film Festival

Niren Tolsi returns to a time before the pandemic brought on travel restrictions to ponder what is being lost in a world that is confined to itself

News readers often mix up actual news and opinion pieces.

New lease of life for Herald newspaper

Ernest Hemingway immortalised the Paris-based Herald newspaper in his writing, but future readers will know it as the International New York Times.

Vidal’s literary legacy includes a series of historical novels – Burr

Playwright Gore Vidal dies, aged 86

Writer Gore Vidal, who filled his intellectual works with acerbic observations on politics, sex and American culture, has died in LA at the age of 86.

Hemingway lives on in Cuba

American writer Ernest Hemingway’s devotees in Cuba can walk in the footsteps of the author death to honour the 50th anniversary of his death.

When Hemingway turned his hand to verse

There is probably a good reason Ernest Hemingway is known for his novels, short stories and journalism rather than his poetry, and it can be found in a remarkable first edition…