J. M. Coetzee, Author Viking Books $23.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-670-88731-6 As a writer, Coetzee is a literary cascade, with a steady output of fiction and criticism (literary and social) over the ...

The Essential J.M. Coetzee His spare, icily precise books explore humanity’s most serious themes, including South Africa’s legacy of apartheid. And not all of them are downers.

Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee's new novel, 'The Pole,' is the taut but clever story of a woman's almost-affair — and the paragon of a great author's late work.

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 ...

The South African writer J.M. Coetzee’s novels are slim, and so, by and large, are his characters — they’re Modiglianis, not Boteros. The most wraithlike, a saintly hunger artist, is the ...

African Book Club: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee Broadcast Wed 14 Dec 2016 at 11:05pm Wednesday 14 Dec 2016 at 11:05pm Wed 14 Dec 2016 at 11:05pm Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right ...

B. D. McClay reviews J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus trilogy, composed of the novels “The Childhood of Jesus,” “The Schooldays of Jesus,” and, most recently, “The Death of Jesus,” and ...