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Leo P Neufeld Reviews Double Negative by Ivan Vladislavic
Verdict: carrot Search online for “African post-modernist literature” and you’ll see from the results why Ivan Vladislavic is ahead of his time. He may be the only African post-modernist writer. But...
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Sunday Read: True Detective Pushes 120 Year Old Book, The King in Yellow by...
Obscure references to “The Yellow King” in the television crime series True Detective pushed Robert Chambers’ 120 year old collection of short horror stories, The King in Yellow, into fourth place on...
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Book Bites: 23 February 2014
Mammals of Southern Africa and Their Tracks and Signs Lee Gutteridge & Louis Liebenberg (Jacana) ***** Book trek Track and sign is part art, part science. It is all about observation and practice....
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Man Booker International Prize 2015 Finalists to Be Announced in Cape Town...
Alert! The Man Booker International Prize 2015 finalists announcement will be held in Cape Town in partnership with the University of Cape Town in March next year. In the past the finalists have been...
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The Matrix on Meth: Tymon Smith on Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge
By Tymon Smith for The Sunday Times Bleeding Edge Thomas Pynchon (Jonathan Cape) ***** How to explain to someone who’s never had the experience, what it is to read a Thomas Pynchon novel? What happens...
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Film Rights Optioned for The Delhi Deception by Elana Sabharwal
 > The film rights for Elana Sabharwal’s debut novel, The Delhi Deception, have been optioned by Fineline Productions and Aquaworx (Proprietary) Limited. The Delhi Deception follows South...
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Duncan Brown’s Are Trout South African? Shortlisted for the Diagram Prize for...
Alert! Duncan Brown’s Are Trout South African?: Stories of Fish, People and Places has been shortlisted for the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Are Trout South African? looks at...
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Sarah Lotz on How to Survive Being on the Receiving End of a Hatchet Job
Sarah Lotz has shared an article on Pornokitsch that she wrote a few years ago after being on the receiving end of a particularly bad review: “one that’s so vituperative and personal that I’m forced...
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Sunday Read: Guy Rundle Weighs in on Recent Julian Assange Revelations
Guy Rundle has responded to Andrew O’Hagan’s “hatchet job” on Julian Assange, seeing the WikiLeaks founder as a kind of unwilling martyr to the the UK’s Left-liberal media establishment. After two...
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One Steppe at a Time: Bron Sibree Chats to Tim Cope About His Adventures in...
By Bron Sibree for The Sunday Times On the Trail of Genghis Khan Tim Cope (Bloomsbury) **** It’s gone down in history as one of the most epic journeys of our age. Tim Cope was a little-known...
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Line-up for 2014 Dancing in Other Words International Poetry Festival Announced
Alert! The line-up for the second annual Dancing in Other Words International Poetry Festival, a combination of acclaimed international and local poets, has been announced. On 9 and 10 May 2014,...
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Michiko Kakutani Reviews All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
Verdict: carrot Dinaw Mengestu’s deeply moving new novel, “All Our Names,” takes place in the early 1970s in two worlds that could not be farther apart: a quiet, semirural town named Laurel in the...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Longlisted for the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for...
Alert! Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah has been longlisted for the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Women’s Prize for Fiction and before that as the Orange Prize for...
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Sunday Read: Writers, Take the Slow Train
Jessica Gross found a writer’s garret-cum-paradise on a train – and inadvertently sparked a new writer’s residency. See the comments below her piece for more on writers and trains. I am in a little...
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Your Next Nordic Neurosis: William Saunderson-Meyer Reviews The Game Trilogy
By William Saunderson-Meyer for The Sunday Times The Game Trilogy: Game, Buzz, Bubble Anders de la Motte (HarperCollins) **** Sweden doesn’t generally have a high profile in the Anglophone world –...
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Charlotte Mathews Reviews Digging Deep by Jade Davenport and Gold by Matthew...
Verdict: carrots About halfway through Digging Deep I was struck by a sense of déjà vu. Here it was: “Government recognised that the alleviation of poverty through job creation could best be achieved...
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David Attwell Traces JM Coetzee’s Creative Process through Newly Available...
Cossee, the publishers that have released many a Dutch translation of JM Coetzee’s work, will this year publish David Attwell’s English book on Coetzee’s creative process and the development of his...
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All Our Names Author Dinaw Mengestu Discusses His Favourite Passage in...
Dinaw Mengestu, whose new novel, All Our Names, was recently released, believes great literature can overcome the “fractured gaze” that separates “us” from “them”. In an essay for The Atlantic,...
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Justin Cartwright Discusses the Aspects of South African Culture at Play in...
 > “The Pistorius case – voyeuristic, bizarre, sensational and disturbing as it is – is not just the trial of one man; it is an insight into the state of the nation,” Justin Cartwright...
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Sunday Read: Lynne Truss on Cat Out of Hell – Her “Indescribable Book of...
Lynne Truss, author of the best-selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, has written about her latest book, Cat Out of Hell, for the The Independent. She explains that it’s an “indescribable book of comic...
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