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John Murillo III Reviews Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
Verdict: carrot Selasi’s brilliant text is a moving through, traveling with, orbiting around, and simple, and beautiful, inhabitation of this hole, this void, the whole of it, that deathly opening,...
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Brittle Paper Announces a New African Fantasy Series: Read Part 1 and 2 of...
Brittle Paper have announced a new African Fantasy Story Series in which they plan to publish original stories by African authors. Eugene Odogwu’s story In The Shadow of Iyanibi packs a powerful punch...
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Pieter Malan resenseer World War One and the People of South Africa, Louis...
Uitspraak: wortels Dis moeilik om aan enigiets te dink wat ’n groter invloed op die gang van die geskiedenis het as oorlog. Soveel te meer as dit ’n konflik is wat, soos die “Groot Oorlog” van 1914...
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45 Ways to Avoid the Word “Very”, and the Other Top 42 Writing Posts of 2014,...
Writers Write, a South African company offering courses in business and creative writing, has shared its Top 42 Writing Posts of 2014. The posts, written by Writers Write founder Amanda Patterson and...
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The First Times Talks Event of 2015: Jodi Picoult Chats to Michele Magwood...
“I’m going to make you fall in love with elephants.” These were the opening words of best-selling American author Jodi Picoult at Kingsmead College in Johannesburg on Thursday, 22 January. She was...
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Fiction Friday: Read a New Short Story from Cameroon’s Million-Dollar Author,...
33-year-old Cameroon-born newcomer Imbolo Mbue made headlines when she sold the rights to her debut novel, The Longings of Jende Jonga, for a cool $1 million (R11,5 million) at the Frankfurt Book...
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Sunday Read: I Want to Believe – An Excerpt from David Duchovny’s Debut Novel...
We have no idea how we missed this on our list of books to look out for in 2015, but David Duchovny has written a novel. It’s called Holy Cow – which oddly enough is precisely the reaction we had when...
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The Guardian Pulls Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Article on Depression
On Saturday, The Guardian published a touching and deeply personal piece by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her battle with depression, but pulled the article on Sunday, saying it had been published in...
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Presenting the South African Finalists for the 2015 Gourmand World Cookbook...
Alert! Gourmand International have announced the finalists for the 2015 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, naming the winners in the South African category. These books will go on to compete against...
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Shaun de Waal Reviews Books on Conflict: Western Empires, War and South...
Verdict: two carrots and a stick Morris’s earlier book, Why the West Rules – for Now, was much more compelling than War: What Is It Good for? He is a readable writer, with a talent for catchy...
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Striking Video and Photos of André Brink Receiving Honorary Doctorate from...
On Monday, 2 February, André Brink received the honorary doctorate bestowed on him by the Belgian Francophone Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, during an extravagant ceremony...
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Big Names Confirmed Early for 2015 Open Book Festival
Alert! The Open Book Festival organisers have made some early announcements about the 2015 event. 2015 will be the fifth edition of the Open Book Festival, which will run from 9-13 September at the...
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Fiction Friday: “Gramophone”, A New Short Story from EC Osondu (Plus: Debut...
Guernica magazine has published a new short story by Nigerian-born writer EC Osondu, entitled “Gramophone”. Osondu is the winner of the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing, for his short story...
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Sunday Read: Announcement of Harper Lee’s New Novel Go Set a Watchman Sparks...
Social media across the globe was set ablaze on Tuesday, 3 February, when 88-year-old Harper Lee announced that she will be releasing a new book 55 years after her debut and only novel, To Kill a...
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Finding a Voice in Loss: Colm Toibin Chats To Bron Sibree About His Latest,...
By Bron Sibree for the Sunday Times Nora Webster Colm Toibin (Penguin) **** Nora Webster is a masterful novel that its author began 14 years ago and which grew in part from his impulse “to recover and...
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Farewell, Assia Djebar, Great Intellectual and Celebrated French-Algerian Author
Assia Djebar, the celebrated Algerian novelist, passed away this weekend. Djebar, whose real name is Fatima Zohra Imalayène, wrote in French and was often mentioned as a contender for Nobel Prize. She...
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2015 Folio Prize Shortlist Announced, Including Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo...
Alert! The 2015 Folio Prize Shortlist has been announced, including Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. Chair of judges William Fiennes revealed the shortlist on Monday, 9 January. The eight titles...
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The Local Books to Look Forward to in 2015 (Jan – June)
This year holds a lot in store for fans of South African fiction and non-fiction. Take a look at our selection of the books to look out for in the first half of 2015. On the fiction side, there are...
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Sean O’Toole Reviews Three Books, Including Transformations by Imraan Coovadia
Verdict: carrots Coovadia’s discoveries in relation to Coetzee have been the subject of some discussion in South African literary circles. Although he denies it, Coovadia – an elegant, ranging,...
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Ronald Odamolekun Reviews African Roar 2014, Edited by Ivor Hartmann
Verdict: carrot Probably, the most phenomenal feature of this anthology is that a majority of its writers are young, mostly men in their twenties yearning for expression. They are nurturing much...
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