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 ...

Why Jesus? This is the inescapable question presented by J. M. Coetzee’s “Jesus trilogy,” which began in 2013 with “The Childhood of Jesus,” continued in 2016 with “The Schooldays of Jesus,” and now, ...

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 ...

Last December J.M. Coetzee, the South African-turned-Australian author, returned to Cape Town to give a reading. He began by thanking his former colleagues at the university where he had taught; he ...

The YouTube clip still does the rounds, two years on: J M Coetzee, chairing a literary event in Adelaide, introduces Geoff Dyer, who takes the lectern, and says, “If someone had told me 20 years ago ...

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 South African author J.M. Coetzee, now 85 years old, is renowned for his austere, intellectually rigorous novels such as “Disgrace” (1999) and “The Childhood of Jesus” (2013), and his scrupulous ...

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.

How do you evaluate a novelist whose works are littered with scathing self-assessments? The Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee has articulated so many harsh criticisms of himself and his fiction within his ...

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, ...