Keeley Behr has already accomplished plenty during her remarkable cross country and track career for UW-Eau Claire. She is a three-time national qualifier in cross country and a conference champion in ...

You've got to hand it to Mark Behr. To write a novel about a passionate sexual affair between a barely pubescent boy and his male teacher from the point of view of the child and to make it almost ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Mark Behr, an educator and award-winning author with ties to Santa Fe, died Nov. 27 of an apparent heart attack in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was 52, and his death was first reported by the South ...

I read Mark Behr’s Die Reuk van Appels as a second year student in Stellenbosch. I found a copy in a friend’s flat and finished it in an afternoon. Change was in the air – one could smell it. Even in ...

Die Reuk van Appels changed a generation. Mia Swart pays tribute to the work of Behr, who died on November 27 from a heart attack at the age of 52.

'Forgiveness is accepting the distance between how we would have wanted things to be and the way they are,' says one of the many profundity-prone characters in the third novel from South African ...

Mark Behr is best known for his debut The Smell of Apples, a novel that exposed South Africa's Afrikaner culture at its most unappealing. Here, he meshes the personal and political with a novel about ...