Maverick Life

Blue Origin’s all-female space flight urges women to shoot for the stars – but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional

By Jasleen Chana

Maverick Life

Bill Gates’ origin story describes a life of privilege, exposing the DNA of some of the tech industry’s problems

By Dana McKay

Business Maverick

Thebe Ikalafeng’s The Traveller is sumptuous

By Ferial Haffajee

Maverick Life

The five best non-fiction books of 2024 – according to experts

By The Conversation

Maverick Life

Matriarchs, Meze and the Evil Eye is a must-read memoir

By Costas Ayiotis

DM168

Marion Sparg — a white MK soldier on blasting apartheid’s foundations

By Marion Sparg

South Africa

Lucky Bastard by Anthony Akerman and the making of an origin story

By Anthony Akerman

South Africa

Speechless at 40 — Kim Ballantine’s heartbreaking, raw and darkly funny memoir

By The Reading List

South Africa

The Storyteller of Riverlea – read an excerpt from ‘Chris van Wyk: Irascible Genius’, a memoir by his son Kevin van Wyk

By Kevin van Wyk

Maverick Life

In Knife, his memoir of surviving attack, Salman Rushdie confronts a world where liberal principles like free speech are old-fashioned

By Paul Giles

South Africa

Anthony Akerman’s memoir: ‘Lucky Bastard’

By Anthony Akerman

South Africa

‘Impossible Skies’ — a documentation of an unequivocal genius of South African art

By Janet van Eeden