Book Reviews

Books and stories teach us to perspective-take. I have read studies suggesting that because Gen X (me) and Boomers (people older than me) largely...

Ok so at first glance I thought this book would be entirely frivolous and at best would make an hilarious gift for the genuine birth certified...

Possibly the fact that a book has won a Booker Prize (or indeed any literary award) should serve as an immediate caveat that it is not for the...

Dear Ijeawele: A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Published by 4th Estate (an Imprint of Harper Collins) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  ...

Mzansi Zen – Written by Antony Osler (author of “Stoep Zen” and “Zen Dust”) Published by Jacana   Antony Osler is an advocate and a...

This book was not written for me. It was written for men.  For black men in particular, although it’s really a book for all South Africans of...

I have always had a particular weakness for learned, distinguished older legal fellows. Especially those in robes.  It may have to do with...

I love Sue Monk Kidd. I love her partly because she wrote her astonishing first novel (The Secret Life of Bees) at 48 (before that she was a...

This is a great book. But it is a great American book. We need more books like this (and similarly uncomfortable conversations) in the...

  “We give life meaning through our actions, but also through loving and finally through suffering.”   Less than a year after his...

Reading ‘Not to Mention’ by Vivienne De Klerk felt like watching a car crash in slow motion and being unable to look away. Or finding myself...

Sally Andrew has published three books in the Tannie Maria series: Recipes for Love and Murder, The Satanic Mechanic, and Death on the Limpopo....

I am devoted to Rhinos and have, over the years, attempted to meditate with the requisite zeal (though with varying degrees of success)....