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 ...

The 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to John Maxwell Coetzee, a white South African novelist and essayist whose work chronicles the inner history of his country’s transformation from ...

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 ...

To thrive in the dry climate of J.M. Coetzee’s novels, you need extra supplies of fortitude and compassion. His latest novel, Diary of a Bad Year, tries your patience at the formal level. It is a ...

Although Nobel Prize season tends to direct people’s attention toward the University of Chicago’s economics department and its legacy, the return of the Nobel laureate and former University professor ...

I’ve long been intrigued by late style. The phrase comes from Theodor Adorno, who in 1937 defined it like this: “The maturity of the late works does not resemble the kind one finds in fruit. They are ...

This new novel by the South Africa–born laureate is quite literally layered — three concurrent narratives run in horizontal stripes throughout the book. The upper layer consists of curmudgeonly essays ...

John Coetzee is both Honorary Graduate and holds an Honorary Research affiliation at the University that employs me, but there is no direct benefit to either of us, or to the University, of a ...

The Death of Jesus. By J.M. Coetzee. Harvill Secker; 208 pages; £18.99. To be published in America by Viking in May. WHEN THE South African government condemned J.M. Coetzee’s portrayal of rape in ...