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The Nobel laureate presents an autofiction of contemplation in his latest collection, meditating on ageing and the process of writing
The Nobel laureate completes his trilogy in unerringly precise prose
Plus: JM Coetzee reads a short story from his new collection
Plus: Ghanaian-American novelist Yaa Gyasi on writing about slavery in the age of Trump
Newly discovered photographs taken by the writer as a teenager are on show for the first time in Cape Town
A collection of the South African novelist’s criticism celebrates the art of experience
A child possessing mysterious gifts receives an unusual education in this allusive, and at times playful, new novel
This triptych of plays is opaque rather than illuminating — but Isabelle Huppert is magnificent
Notebook: The Artist espoused traditional musicianship and insisted on self-sufficiency
The French excels in a production that pulls together three versions of the Greek myth
Reporters in ‘deadly peril’ following string of attacks amid a lukewarm response from government
A novelist and a psychotherapist seek common ground
The writer Nadifa Mohamed tells Feargus O’Sullivan of life in two worlds
An old-fashioned literary exchange that upholds the sterling virtue of good writing
JM Coetzee’s new novel works on the imagination in unexpected ways. Hedley Twidle reviews ‘The Childhood of Jesus’
The South African academic Hedley Twidle won the first Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize with this essay
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