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 ...

Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee’s latest work is the third and presumably final novel in a series that freely adapts the Nativity story, relocating it to an unnamed, Spanish-speaking country that may or ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee’s last novel, “Elizabeth Costello,” was an unfulfilling hodgepodge of tedious interviews, lectures and essays. He follows it with a series of totally satisfying, tricky ...

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