The acclaimed and prolific South African author, whose 1978 book The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena confronted the hardships of apartheid, has died

A family with everything money can buy, but beneath the surface their lives are seriously damaged

When Hedley Twidle met his writerly idol, the ‘I’ reached its limit.

Writer and political activist Nadine Gordimer (90) has died peacefully in her sleep, according to a family statement.

John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, died of lung cancer on Tuesday at age 76.