Previous winners A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee were among six finalists announced Tuesday for literature's prestigious Man Booker Prize. Byatt's Edwardian family saga "The Children's Book" and Coetzee's ...

It's best left to his therapist (if he has one) to determine whether J.M. Coetzee is a hopeless narcissist or is blessed with an admirable sense of self-reflection. St. Louis has been through both ...

J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and the fictions of self-deception. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

Almost no one in English can claim a place in the reaches of both categories, which is one reason why South African J. M. Coetzee's Stranger Shores is notable. Until Peter Carey the only writer to win ...

A solid biography, a popular intellectual study of his work, two collections of letters — one between Coetzee and a psychologist on the nature of stories, the other a correspondence he conducted with ...