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Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Rachel Zadok

Elzette Steenkamp, Rachel Zadok 2013-05-17 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Rachel Zadok (author of Sister Sister) about science and speculative fiction.

Booktown Richmond’s 7th Anniversary

2013-05-15 JM Coetzee/Nobel Laureates and Athol Fugard Festivals: May 23-25, 2013.

Here is what’s wrong with Justin Bieber (and us)

Francois Badenhorst 2013-05-15 "Many try to ignore what is broken or repulsive. That is not the answer. The only way to fix the problems we see in celebrity culture – the consumerism, the immorality, the greed – is to change the nature of the conversation."

The Shining Girls – an adeptly crafted spine-tingler

Kayang Gagiano 2013-05-15 "Beukes’s painstaking historical research delivers up authentic, yet slightly clichéd renderings of the eras she chooses to highlight – from the grunge-era 1990s, to the paranoid spectre of McCarthyism in the mid-1950s, to the politically disenchanted Nixon-era ‘70s, and so on."

Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Cat Hellisen

Elzette Steenkamp, Cat Hellisen 2013-05-15 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Cat Hellisen about science and speculative fiction.

Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Lauren Beukes

Elzette Steenkamp, Lauren Beukes 2013-05-15 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Lauren Beukes about science and speculative fiction.

Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Karen Jayes

Elzette Steenkamp, Karen Jayes 2013-05-15 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Karen Jayes about science and specultive fiction

Age of Blossom

Isobel Dixon 2013-05-14 The acclaimed South African poet Isobel Dixon sent LitNet two of her latest poems, never published before. These poems form part of a collaboration with Scottish artist Douglas Robertson in which they respond in different poetic and artistic ways to DH Lawrence's Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923).

Acacia Karroo

Isobel Dixon 2013-05-14 The acclaimed South African poet, Isobel Dixon, sent LitNet two of her latest poems, never published before. These two poems form part of a collaboration with Scottish artist Douglas Robertson in which they respond in different poetic and artistic ways to D H Lawrence's Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923).

Bridging gaps with words

Isobel Dixon 2013-05-14 Acclaimed South African poet and literary agent Isobel Dixon works in London, but is currently visiting South Africa for the Franschhoek Literary Festival. Rentia Bartlett-Möhl spoke to her about travelling, displacement, bridging continents and collaboration.

Eye of the Firestorm: Naledi se boekbekendstelling

Naomi Meyer 2013-05-14 Hoe vóél dit om in 'n storm te wees? Een waar mens om jou lewe vrees en waar mens terselfdertyd veg teen 'n sisteem? Afgetrede generaal-majoor Roland de Vries het 'n boek hieroor geskryf. Kyk foto’s van die bekendstelling.

Like tongues of flame and Flamingo clouds

Ros Wagener 2013-05-08

Ros Wagener writes two effortless poems with attention to sound about a poinsettia, two birds and rosy clouds.

Book Talk: The Disorder of Things at Wits University

2013-05-06 You are invited to a Wits University Press & WiSER Book Talk on The Disorder of Things : A Foucauldian Approach to the Work of Nuruddin Farah. Wednesday 8th May at 6pm-7:30pm.

Book launch: Napoleon Bones by Jenny Hobbs

2013-05-06 Umuzi and Novel Books invite you to the launch of Napoleon Bones in Sandton, Johannesburg.

World Press Freedom Day 2013

Pieter-Dirk Uys 2013-05-03 Pieter Dirk-Uys launched a political "movement" on World Press Freedom Day 2013 to unite those seeking an alternative democracy in the country. He addressed journalists at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town on 3 May 2013. Read the full text of his speech.