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Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph pays homage to Stefans Grové

Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph 2014-06-18 "My Teacher, My Mentor, My Friend!"

Fergus of Galloway

Melissa Cohen 2014-06-18 Yet another gem of a play directed by multi-award-winning director Nicholas Ellenbogen is showing at the Rosebank Theatre in Cape Town until the 28th of June 2014.

Penumbra by Songeziwe Mahlangu

Jonathan Amid 2014-06-11 Read Jonathan Amid's review of this <em>Sunday Times</em> Award nominee.

Book launch of Antjie Krog: An Ethics of Body and Otherness

2014-06-09 You are cordially invited to the launch of a new academic book on Antjie Krog. At the launch a panel consisting of  Louise Viljoen, Franci Vosloo and Christy Weyer will discuss their research.

Coming back home

Tamsyn Lunt 2014-06-04 "St Lucia, I think I speak on behalf of everyone there when I say you are welcome home any time you’d like." 

Red Earth & Rust: "Gospel songs for non-believers"

Henry Cloete 2014-06-03 "Writing poetry tends to be a solitary business. I think that is what makes this collaboration so rewarding for both of us. You learn to trust the process, not to be so attached to its outcome."

The Write Journey workshop

2014-05-30 A workshop for screenwriters and storytellers will be held in Cape Town in June.

PlayItLoudCPT

Rego Mamogale 2014-05-30 A jamboree for house and any other sort of music lover.

Interviews: Sunday Times and Alan Paton Awards 2014

2014-05-28 A total of ten books were shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award and the Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2014. Read Naomi Meyer's interviews with the shortlisted authors.

You’d (still) be lonely without your iPhone

William Horne 2014-05-28 With viral videos telling you the root of your loneliness lies in your phone, it is time to consider what would really happen if phones were gone, using the logic of the video Look Up.

All the world's a stage

Mike van Graan 2014-05-28  Mike van Graan's opinion on the appointment of Nathi Mthethwa as Minster of Arts and Culture.

Seductive woman

Hennie Smith 2014-05-27 Address by Hennie Smith to open an art exhibition of Mimi van der Merwe: Pretoria Art Association, 2 May 2014.

Wolf, wolf by Eben Venter

Jonathan Amid 2014-05-27 Read Jonathan Amid’s review of Wolf, wolf by Eben Venter.

ISO: "We felt it was necessary to explore something different"

Henry Cloete 2014-05-26 "We wrote and recorded this EP in a very short amount of time, which was also something we wanted to experiment with. Seeing what we could come up with 'on the fly' was a fun part of this particular recording."

Open Book Festival 2014: 17–21 September 2014

2014-05-22 Everything you need to know and hear before the Open Book Festival authors descend on Cape Town.

Student protest action on the rise

Gretchen Dietz 2014-05-22 "Crimes both violent and malicious in nature are on the rise, but Stellenbosch University student activists are rising in resistance along with it."

Booktown Richmond's BookBedonnerd Festival 2014

Darryl David, Naomi Meyer 2014-05-21 Darryl David tells Naomi Meyer about Booktown Richmond, the very centre of the literary universe in the Great Karoo.

Sunday Times Literary Awards Shortlist nominees announced

Naomi Bruwer 2014-05-20 A total of ten books were shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award and the Sunday Times Fiction Prize at the shortlist announcement of the 2014 Sunday Times Literary Awards in association with Exclusive Books held in Franschhoek on 17 May 2014.  

The cutting room by Mary Watson

Jonathan Amid 2014-05-20 Read Jonathan Amid's review of this book, published by Penguin SA.
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