A young lieutenant is sent on his first posting to a remote fortress on the edge of an unknown empire. The outpost faces a vast desert to the north. Although no enemy has been spotted in decades, it ...

When South African novelist J.M. Coetzee wrote 'Waiting for the Barbarians', the murder of anti-apartheid activist Steven Biko was news around the world. Biko died in a Pretoria prison cell in 1977, ...

Wide-ranging and absorbing, this new collection of essays from Mendelsohn (The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million), is a joy from start to finish. Mendelsohn is a critic who consistently takes his ...

Scripted by South African Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee from his eponymous novel, Colombian director Ciro Guerra’s fifth feature—his first English-language film, following the ecstatic triumphs of ...