J.M. Coetzee Archives

J.M. Coetzee

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On the Jesus trilogy

Bedside Planner

From The Death of Jesus, which will be published this month by Viking. The book tells the story of Simón and Inés, the legal guardians of a young boy, David,…

New Books

by Jane Smiley,

At the end of a chapter on Livia, the wife of the Roman emperor Augustus, in Confronting the Classics (Liveright, $28.95), the Cambridge scholar Mary Beard reminds us that when…

Alphabet Cities

by Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee,

From Here and Now, a collection of letters exchanged by novelists J. M. Coetzee and Paul Auster between 2008 and 2011, out this month from Viking. 24 august 2009 Dear…