Fortunately “The Tempest” has no sixth act. What could Shakespeare have made out of Prospero after he broke his wand and renounced his magic? Just another pensioner with nothing to do but hang around, ...

The narrator of J.M. Coetzee’s new novel, identified only as a “Mr Vincent,” is an English academic gathering information for a biographical study of a key period in the life of “John Coetzee,” the ...

John Coetzee, arguably one of the best novelists working in English today, is such a morally courageous and linguistically precise writer that any new work from him is an event. In fiction such as ...

After winning the 1999 Booker Prize with Disgrace, his spare and unsparing novel set in a bleak, post-apartheid South Africa, JM Coetzee has devoted himself to solipsistic, demanding -- and rewarding ...

“Summertime,” shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize, is J.M. Coetzee’s provocative third installment in his series of semi-autobiographical memoirs couched as fiction. The Nobel laureate and two ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

J. M. Coetzee has now published 20 books, among them several fictionalized autobiographies: Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997), Youth (2002) and now this one, which covers the 1970s but is ...

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 ...

We have, in the South African novelist J.M. Coetzee’s latest novel “Summertime,” the public spectacle of a writer whipping his fictional self. John Coetzee” (who in these pages is deceased) is ...