In 2008, a British clinical psychologist, Arabella Kurtz, invited Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee to participate in a public discussion about literature and psychoanalysis. The notoriously ...

I don’t read J.M. Coetzee for pleasure. To be fair, I’m not sure anyone does. The 2003 Nobel laureate writes from his head more than his heart, framing novels that are philosophical and austere, books ...

Even more uncompromising than usual, this latest novel by Coetzee (his first since 1999's Booker Prize–winning Disgrace) blurs the bounds of fiction and nonfiction while furthering the author's ...

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, ...

J. M. Coetzee knows how to work with silence. From the quiet tones of his characters waiting out the night to his short and stoic responses to interview questions, the winner of the Nobel Prize in ...

Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee begins his latest novel with an epigraph from the second part of “Don Quixote,” published in 1615, 10 years after the first part. Coetzee does not bother to translate ...

Men and their desires. Do we really need more on the subject? It is ground that has been plowed so often, by Roth, Updike, and others who came of age during the sexual revolution and its aftermath.

With those essentials so breezily established, Coetzee moves on to weightier matters: Beatriz’s soul. Walczykiewicz, the Pole in titular question, is a pianist in his 70s, famous for his ...

LONDON South African author JM Coetzee is in the running for an unprecedented third Booker Prize, after he was named on this years shortlist on Tuesday. Coetzees fictionalised memoir 'Summertime' will ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 2014, years after he moved from South Africa to Australia, novelist J.M. Coetzee finally sold his apartment in Cape Town. Soon after, ...