Literary Criticism

Arundhati Roy’s ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ is a deeply personal memoir that lays bare the contradictions that shaped both her writing and her life

How AI writing tools, especially ChatGPT, are changing the rhythm, tone and even punctuation of our prose, one em dash at a time

Apartheid SA’s madness, as diagnosed in the exiled author’s subversive texts, was the result of colonialism’s psychological violence

Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola wields language as the ultimate form of technology

A new literary history paints a multicultural picture that includes all the major languages.

<b>Imraan Coovadia</b> finds the points of difference in two authors’ approaches to writing.

How can one write about Kabelo Sello Duiker without a mixture of bitterness and regret at the loss of such a worthy life?

The job of a books editor is curatorial, political and considered. It rests on knowledge of cultural and political networks and who knows who.

Competing metaphors for literary production are like competing discourses. For a healthy industry, we need more of them.

Publishing is like a busy highway on which there are so many different types of drivers and crashes are common .