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Queer Movements: Sexual Desire, Space and Home in Damon Galgut’s In a Strange Room and Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow
2014-08-27Writing South Africa Now: Twenty Years On is a graduate conference on South African literature that took place at the University of York, UK, in June 2014. Read Sanja Nivesjö, "Queer Movements: Sexual Desire, Space and Home in Damon Galgut’s In a Strange Room and Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow".
Designer students rock the runway
2014-08-21 "With a theme of 'self-expression' there was much variety and every outfit stood out as fabulously unique – from shimmering shorts and floral maxis to refined menswear and exquisite bridal gowns."
Invisible Others by Karina Szczurek
2014-08-20 "In the time that Cara ekes out to Konrad she reveals little about herself and her 'invisible others', Lucas and Dagmar, who have marked her."
Review: Garden of Dreams by Melissa Siebert
2014-08-20 Karina Szczurek reviews Garden of Dreams by Melissa Siebert.
Interview: Garden of Dreams by Melissa Siebert
2014-08-18 Melissa Siebert discusses her debut novel with Jonathan Amid.
Inexplicable Present: Post-Apartheid Subjectivity in Vladislavic?’s City
2014-08-14 Writing South Africa Now: Twenty Years On is a graduate conference on South African literature that took place at the University of York, UK, in June 2014. Read Thando Njovane's abridged paper, "Inexplicable Present: Post-Apartheid Subjectivity in Vladislavic?’s City".
Sinister Surfaces: Contemporary South African Horror (On Stage and Off)
2014-08-14 Writing South Africa Now: Twenty Years On is a graduate conference on South African literature that took place at the University of York, UK, in June 2014. Read Esthie Hugo's abridged paper, "Sinister Surfaces: Contemporary South African Horror (On Stage and Off)".
The Midlands Literary Festival 2014
2014-08-14 The fifth Midlands Literary Festival takes place from the 23–24 August at Yellowwood Cafe in Howick.
Interview: I See You by Ishtiyaq Shukri
2014-08-13 "I am the people I know, the books I have read, the countries in which I have lived – and very nearly died. In January I visited the Yemeni island of Socotra. It is truly the most remarkable place I’ve even been to."
Skate in the Cape
2014-08-13 "With the opening of a new skate park in Gardens, Cape Town, and the rise in skate competitions, what lies ahead for this increasingly diverse sport?"
Ken Barris + Michael Cope = Cope Barris
2014-08-12 "We worked the way we did because we’re the personalities we are, and we approach writing as we do, and the alchemy came from that wonderful unlikely combination."
Interview: Frankie Murrey on the Open Book Festival 2014
2014-08-11 "Really, though, for me success is seeing people coming out of events looking like the world has opened up to them ..."
Literary Trials: Janet Malcolm, Narrative Journalism and the Courtroom in South Africa and the United States
2014-08-07 Writing South Africa Now: Twenty Years On is a graduate conference on South African literature that took place at the University of York, UK, in June 2014. Read Anneke Rautenbach's abridged paper, Literary Trials: Janet Malcolm, Narrative Journalism and the Courtroom in South Africa and the United States.
Drawing South Africa Now: Writing Urban Environments in the Graphic Novel Form?
2014-08-07 Writing South Africa Now: Twenty Years On is a graduate conference on South African literature that took place at the University of York, UK, in June 2014. Read Dominic Davies's abridged paper, "Drawing South Africa Now: Writing Urban Environments in the Graphic Novel Form?".
Writing South Africa Now 2014: The online edition
2014-08-07 Writing South Africa Now: Twenty Years On, a one-day colloquium on South African literature, recently took place at the University of York, UK. This week, read Sanja Nivesjö's abridged paper.
Lucy Kruger: "I had time to find a sound"
2014-08-05 "My first few shows playing solo were really quite depressing and very forgettable ..."
Launch: Dare We Hope? by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
2014-08-01 Launch of Gobodo-Madikizela's new book, Dare We Hope?, 18 August at The Book Lounge.
Overview: Man Booker Prize longlist 2014
2014-07-31 "Complete whitewash for African writers as Americans join the Man Booker Prize longlist party," writes Jonathan Amid.
Reader's review: Paradise by Greg Lazarus
2014-07-30 "Expertly edited by the superb Henrietta Rose-Innes, these four voices, channelled through the authorial lens of Greg Lazarus, offer an almost musical sense of harmony and melody in a novel that hits subtle notes, tugs at the heartstrings, alternates between moments of rich light and shade, and ultimately leaves the reader with a huge grin and an urge to say 'More, more!'"