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In her eyes: Author Arundhati Roy studied architecture, not writing, and moved briefly through the worlds of screenwriting and film before becoming one of India’s most influential literary voices.  Photo: File

Arundhati Roy’s most personal story yet

Arundhati Roy’s ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ is a deeply personal memoir that lays bare the contradictions that shaped both her writing and her life

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AI didn’t kill writing — we did

How AI writing tools, especially ChatGPT, are changing the rhythm, tone and even punctuation of our prose, one em dash at a time

In the Palm-Wine Drinkard, Amos Tutuola places the most bizarre creatures within the limits of our current experience

African science fiction: rereading the The Palm-Wine Drinkard

Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola wields language as the ultimate form of technology

Naivity

Naivity, novelty and the writer’s art

<b>Imraan Coovadia</b> finds the points of difference in two authors’ approaches to writing.

Giant in the making

Giant in the making

How can one write about Kabelo Sello Duiker without a mixture of bitterness and regret at the loss of such a worthy life?

South African literature’s perfect storm

The job of a books editor is curatorial, political and considered. It rests on knowledge of cultural and political networks and who knows who.

Looking for shapes in the clouds

Competing metaphors for literary production are like competing discourses. For a healthy industry, we need more of them.

Why rage is inevitable

Publishing is like a busy highway on which there are so many different types of drivers and crashes are common .