The book – in both Afrikaans and English – is set to release in South Africa on March 10 and Gardiner will be visiting Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town for a series of promotional events, book ...

You have edited Yaraana, India’s first anthology of gay writing. What was the experience like? Hoshang Merchant: I will take ...

It was March 1994, more than two years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the debates within the US Embassy in Moscow were heated. Diplomats in the economic section, backed by the Treasury ...

The narrative-makers rarely help and enable us see through the opportunism of the Muslim elites played out at the expense of ...

In 1395, English author and poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, known for writing The Canterbury Tales, The Knight’s Tale, and many other books and poems, and was dubbed by some, The Father of English Literature, ...

Ava Reid set out to write a feminist retelling of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Not only is it not feminist, but it's hardly even a retelling.

The story in your mind that you spend hours at a time daydreaming about could be written and ready for publishing within the two years at the Low-Residency Master of ...

Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa’s new book, translated from French to English by Emma Ramadan, ‘Living in Your Light’, goes straight to the source of Taia’s life: his late mother, M’Barka Allali Taïa.

Ugandan comedy was once feted as the wave of the future. Today, English-speaking comedians have retreated, with Ugandan jokesters declaring they make more money from paying audiences abroad ...

The stage adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s myth-making 1967 book is designed to provoke, says its star Olivia DeJonge.

For years, only the Shakespeares and Dickenses of the world have been the mainstays in our English classrooms, with no room for the Rokeyas — voices that resonate with our culture and identity. It’s t ...

In Notes from Underground,” Frank asserts, the writing explodes and implodes and all the time the writer is trapped inside it, not only unable to get out, but unable to see what he has gotten himself ...