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Layered: Lebo Mazibuko’s novel Fabrics of Love came out in August. Photo: Thandukwazi Lungelo Gcabashe

Exploring the fabric of family and identity in Lebo Mazibuko’s Fabrics of Love

Lebo Mazibuko’s second novel, Fabrics of Love, looks at themes of family trauma, black womanhood, absent fathers and heritage

Kedibone’s keeper: Khutjo Green as Kedibone on e.tv’s daily soapie Scandal. Photo: Supplied

The final act: Khutjo Green on Scandal!, spirituality and the soul of storytelling

From Stage to Scandal!: Khutjo Green speaks on authenticity, language and creative evolution

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‘Adaptation’: New short fiction from Phumlani Pikoli

Phumlani Pikoli’s latest piece is a metafiction based on what could happen if spike jonze and Ira Glass met

This normalisation of corruption and public service failure means that media coverage doesn’t result in actual accountability.

Ombud okays media naming high-profile, probable gender-harm perpetrators

Publications can now identify a person alleged to have done such harm, but defamation rules still apply

Donald Glover’s critically acclaimed Atlanta is showing on the Fox Life channel on DStv.

Atlanta’s finest, ‘Poisoned Pasts’ and December tunes are on our lists this week

The Lists this week were compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and senior arts writer Kwanele Sosibo.

Migrants: Unexpected guests trapped in time and space

The outsider has always held a fascination for artists and writers, helping to shape our view of those who exist in a state of perpetual transition.

Painting with words: Eliza Kentridge has produced a collection of poems filled with integrity and beauty.

Eliza Kentridge’s stilled soul reveals the intimate

The beautiful poems written by a ‘quieted’ Eliza Kentridge could well be viewed as visual art.

Israel’s path ‘worse than apartheid’

Noam Chomsky states that if Israel is boycotted, the same fate should befall the United States. He further believes that a boycott could backfire.

A banner depicting late Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez is hung in Mexico City.

Picaresque with closure

An appreciation of the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who has died aged 87, by American novelist Edmund White.

African writing blurs into ‘world’ literature

Initiatives such as the Kwani Trust and Femrite are helping to keep a beleaguered readership alive.

The outcome of the ANC’s long-awaited KwaZulu-Natal conference was a win for the Thuma Mina crowd. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Skip the small talk

JM Coetzee believes it has ‘artistic sensibility’ but Small Things is unsatisfactory on so many levels.

Noam Chomsky speaks on the balcony of the offices of Armenian newspaper Agos during a commemoration ceremony for slain journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul.

Chomsky: ‘No individual changes anything alone’

Noam Chomsky is one of the world’s most controversial thinkers. Now 84, he reflects on his work, events in Syria and Israel, and the love of his life.

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Bard of the Gulag

Towering figure of Russian literature and politics who revealed the true horrors of Stalin’s labour camps.