Make way for the wise man of Winterveldt
What kind of a book would the biography of the leader of Winterveldt, arguably the largest informal settlement in the southern hemisphere, make?
Biographies
Boxed into dead-end despair
Biography of Nat Nakasa provides an incomplete picture of the maverick Durban-born writer who killed himself in New York at the tender age of 28.
Richard Rive biography: Where’s the roistering braggart?
A new biography fails to capture the turbulent life and death of one of South Africa’s most distinguished authors.
Emma Brockes: In defiance of cruelty, a vital grace
When an English journalist’s mother dies, she unearths some extraordinarily painful secrets that have been buried for years, writes Charles Leonard.
Who will play Hillary Clinton in new biopic?
Forthcoming movie about likely 2016 contender’s early life is already causing controversy.
Beastie Boys memoir to be released in 2015
The iconic hip-hop group has a deal with publisher Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, for an illustrated oral history.
Posthumous honours
That a book about his life has just won a Pulitzer is surely proof that Malcolm X’s redemption in mainstream America is near complete.
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The restless genius whose life reads like a novel
Two hundred years after Charles Dickens’s
birth on February 7 1812, his energetic, blazing
life still fascinates us, writes <b>Jenny Uglow</b>.