The annual Sanlam prize for youth literature attracts welcome additions to young adult literature, particularly the 2013 gold and silver winners.
Hot off the press from Jacana is a new crop of local books for read-to-mes.
Young adult readers will find a satisfying crop of new holiday reads, both local and international, on the shelves of local bookstores this summer.
The Blue Iris, a new work from the pen of 80-year-old Athol Fugard, is as delicate and finely detailed as the flower from which it takes its name.
The talented, eccentric, heavy-drinking and often tragic ghosts of 1950s Sophiatown are haunting the Market Theatre.
A new series of books uses local history as a way to hook young readers.
Despite some unfortunate gaps, there are many local books to keep the youngsters entertained this holiday season.
On a heritage site in Swellendam, a pottery studio continues produces pieces rich in tradition.
It’s an ambitious project to make reading a pleasure.
Early associations of warmth and care with books are a good way to begin a lifelong love.
A question that plagues <b>Pat Schwartz</b> most about this strike: At what point does the right to fair pay trump the right to life?
Within a month of the death of its patron, Sheena Duncan, the Black Sash has lost a second stalwart.
Within a month of the death of its patron, Sheena Duncan, the Black Sash has lost a second stalwart.
As corporate donations for the arts dry up, many organisations need to exchange a begging bowl for a business plan, writes <b>Pat Schwartz</b>
"Too many words," say I to Sally-Ann Murray. Perhaps too many small moving parts.
Transplanting ancient Buddhist traditions to the seemingly arid Karoo saw stoep Zen grow into Antony Osler’s book of the same name.
There is nothing comfortable about this tale of runaway slaves and those who make their living out of returning them to their owners.
Why? Is one of the questions that pursued me throughout my reading of this so-called novel, presented in the form of a medical history.
The Franschhoek Valley will now be remembered for a happily successful three-day-long celebration of the written word, writes Pat Schwartz
A lecture tour by Benjamin Pogrund, a former South African journalist now living in Israel, and his Palestinian associate has been called off in the wake of the controversy…
