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What is a Terrorist? Asne Seierstad and Masha Gesson Discuss the Norway...
Jonny Steinberg spoke to Åsne Seierstad and Masha Gessen about their books, One of Us and The Tsarnaev Brothers: The Road to a Modern Tragedy, at the 2015 Open Book Festival yesterday. Seierstad’s...
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2015 Open Book: Russia Under Putin, Missing Pieces, Shades of Green and Books...
The last session on the fourth day of the 2015 Open Book Festival was packed with riveting conversations. Annetjie van Wynegaard tweeted from the PEN Dialogue where Pippa Green spoke to Masha...
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2015 Open Book: Khaya Dlanga, Hormone Factories and Musings on Loss
It’s the final day of the 2015 Open Book Festival, and some great conversations are happening. DJ Suga interviewed Khaya Dlanga about his memoir, To Quote Myself. Erin Devenish was on the spot: To...
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2015 Open Book Festival: Sex in the Citadel, Blood on the Lands and...
It’s Sunday, 13 September – the final day of the 2015 Open Book Festival – and conversations remain riveting. In a session called “Blood on the Land” Patrick Flanery, Craig Higginson and Yvonne...
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2015 Open Book Festival: Sex in the Citadel, Blood on the Lands and...
It’s Sunday, 13 September – the final day of the 2015 Open Book Festival – and conversations remain riveting. In a session called “Blood on the Land” Patrick Flanery, Craig Higginson and Yvonne...
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2015 Open Book Festival: And That’s a Wrap
Sunday was the final day of the 2015 Open Book Festival, but the intrepid Books LIVE team kept its foot on the pedal to bring you the events as they happened. In Limited Space, Melissa de...
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Join Sapphire, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Nomboniso Gasa at the 3rd African...
The 3rd African Women Writers’ Symposium, presented by Arts Alive and the Department of Arts and Culture, is taking place at The Fringe at the Joburg Theatre this weekend. The line-up of poets and...
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2015 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced: Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen...
Alert! The shortlist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The 2015 Man Booker Prize shortlist: Tom McCarthy (UK) – Satin Island (Jonathan Cape) Marlon James (Jamaica) – A Brief History...
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The Most Explosive Event of Open Book 2015: Xolela Mangcu, Hlonipha Mokoena,...
The diversity of opinions present on stage at the Open Book Festival during the conversation on race illustrated the complexity of this important issue. As the audience began to leave at the end of...
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Stuart Evers Reviews Up Against the Night by Justin Cartwright
Verdict: carrot, with criticism There is a wonderful balance between Jaco’s sections and Frank’s, the suspense building as the two edge closer to each other as they cross the country. Why Cartwright...
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Hedley Twidle Reviews The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
Verdict: carrot In a slow-burning portrait of an ordinary family embroiled in extraordinary times (Nigeria’s slide into the Abacha dictatorship underlies the story), Obioma weaves the linear chronology...
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With Fresh Eyes in Gaza: Ayesha Kajee Talks to Susan Abulhawa about Her...
By Ayesha Kajee for the Sunday Times The Blue Between Sky and Water Susan Abulhawa (Bloomsbury) **** “When it comes to women of colour, and women in struggle, society has categories for all of us, and...
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Read Penny Busetto’s UJ Prize Acceptance Speech and Craig MacKenzie’s Praise...
On Wednesday, 9 October, Zakes Mda and Penny Busetto were awarded the 2014/15 University of Johannesburg Prizes for South African writing in English for their respective novels, Rachel’s Blue and...
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Presenting the 2015 IBBY SA Honour Roll
Alert! IBBY SA have revealed their honour list for 2015-2016. The South African section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) announced the six titles on their 2015-2016 honour...
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Read Zakes Mda’s UJ Prize Acceptance Speech and Ronit Frenkel’s Praise of...
On Wednesday, 9 October, Zakes Mda and Penny Busetto were awarded the 2014/15 University of Johannesburg Prizes for South African writing in English for their respective novels, Rachel’s Blue and...
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(Non) Fiction Friday: Read an Excerpt from The Lights of Pointe-Noire by 2015...
Alain Mabanckou – novelist, journalist, poet and academic hailing from Brazzaville in the Congo – recently attended the 2015 Open Book Festival where he participated in numerous panel discussions...
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Sunday Read: The Books Americans are Trying to Get Banned – Find Out About...
Banned Books Week, an annual event created to draw attention to the harms of censorship, runs from 27 September to 3 October in the United States this year. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982,...
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5 Sunday Reads, Including Hemingway in Love, Is Hamlet Fat? and a New Essay...
1. Hitler at Home From Places: “Adolf Hitler was an extreme anti-Semite, convicted traitor, and leader of a violent paramilitary force. In a remarkable press campaign, the Nazis reinvented him as a...
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Book Bites: 27 September 2015
Desire for Chocolate Care Santos (Bloomsbury) *** Book Fling To anyone who loves chocolate, historical fiction and bone china, the premise of this novel is irresistible: the stories of three women in...
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Cold Exile: Jennifer Platt Chats to Patrick Gale About His Novel A Place...
Patrick Gale invented a gay history for a forebear – and found it might have been the truth. By Jennifer Platt for the Sunday Times A Place Called Winter Patrick Gale (Headline) ***** “I gayed my...
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