U.K. producer Patrick Holzen is producing the apartheid-era film alongside "Crash's" Mark R. Harris and Los Angeles-based Debbie Vandermeulen. By Tatiana Siegel Kasi Lemmons is attached to adapt and ...

A FEW MONTHS AGO, during an interview with Mary Gaitskill, I asked her to respond to a quote from a New York Times critic who had observed that Gaitskill’s writing “falls outside the domestic realism ...

Kasi Lemmons, director of “Eve’s Bayou” and “Talk to Me,” is attached to adapt and direct South African apartheid novel “Agaat,” written in 2010 by Marlene van Niekerk. The rights to the book have ...

Ten years ago, Marlene van Niekerk published a novel that broke radically with the tradition of Afrikaans writing. Triomf, a grotesque family drama set in a poor white Afrikaner community, part ...

In 1976, a 15-year-old boy named Jakkie de Wet comes home from boarding school at Easter to Grootmoedersdrift (Grandmother’s Crossing), the farm in the Cape Province of South Africa that has been in ...