Recently, in a bar, I was reading “In Gratitude,” by the British writer Jenny Diski, when a loud guy with tall hair asked me what it was. I stumbled a little before saying, “It’s a cancer memoir.” I ...

The Vanishing Princess finds Diski in reflective mode. The first story is about the eponymous princess, but its subtitle—“Or, The Origin of Cubism”—suggests something more than a modern fairytale.

WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST DO WHAT YOU WERE TOLD? By Jenny Diski. Bloomsbury. 432 pages. $28. Jenny Diski’s death of lung cancer in 2016 left a Diski-sized gap in the pages of the “London Review of Books,” ...

To my mind, the quintessential Jenny Diski moment comes in her essay “Rape-rape,” published November 2009 in the London Review of Books. Considering the director Roman Polanski’s statutory rape of a ...

The late Jenny Diski’s memoir reflects on mortality and her complicated relationship with Doris Lessing with equal candour I had just finished this remarkable book and this review, when I heard of ...

Unbeaten in their last four outings, the Richards Bay FC U23 side has eased into the top half of the DStv Diski Challenge log table. On Sunday, they made it two wins in a row with a 1-0 victory ...

The first in a series of stories about the upcoming World Cup in South Africa, which begins June 11. “There’s a style in which South Africans play soccer. It’s always flair-y, it’s always showy and it ...

Jenny Diski in 1988. “I write fiction and nonfiction, but it’s almost always personal,” Diski said about her writing process. “I’ve never been apologetic about that nor had a sense that my writing is ...

Writer Jenny Diski was taken in by Doris Lessing in 1963 when she was a teenager, but the relationship soon soured. Now Diski, recently diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, has finally decided to ...

Jenny Diski, who has died of cancer aged 68, survived a bleak childhood and miserable youth to become one of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation, and a prolific ...