Doom is in the air

Hollywood struggled to respond to the war on terror and documentaries went through a golden age. Peter Bradshaw reviews the decade.

The biographer's rise

Darryl Accone tracks the simulacrum of fact that gained prominence in the Noughties.

Cookery books for Christmas

Recession notwithstanding, cookery books are still in good supply for all the amateur chefs out there this Christmas.

All the festive movies

Keeping yourself busy at the movies this festive season? We bring you the best of the year-end movies.

Coming up in 2010

Movie expert Shaun de Waal gives us a preview of what's in store on the big screen next year.

New audiences, new fans

Multidisciplinary works take the lead and there's a new confidence in the voices of our young theatremakers.

Top five South African singles of the year

SA's music expert gives you top singles of the year that was.

A mutually deforming relationship

Figures released recently rank South Africa 81 out of 96 countries when measuring the ratio of architects to the general population.

The wow years

Taller, shinier, crazier... architecture in the Noughties is an outlandish celebration of wealth. We report on the boom that couldn't last.

From Oilgate to Bosasa: 10 reports that shook SA

The Mail & Guardian is synonymous with the exposé -- it’s part of our brand, our professional lifeblood.

Not the view from the top

Dear diary ... a privileged vantage on a decade in the news, with a little help from Hayibo.com.

Ten years of hits and misses

Shaun de Waal spends a decade at the movies so you don't have to.

Not all fun and games

Baldur’s Gate, Unreal Tournament and Dance Dance Revolution are so 20th century.

Maxed out! Welcome to the age of greed and speed

The M&G meanders through the bling-bling maze from New York to Newtown and tally up the cultural and economic cost of excess.

2000-2009: How much do you remember?

Here are 100 questions to test your knowledge of the people, events, milestones and disappointments of the past decade.

Goodbye, faded rainbow

Rapule Tabane looks at how leadership has influenced racial attitudes in South Africa in the past 10 years.

2009 Report Card: Part 2

There are so many Cs in the report card that you could be forgiven for expecting Zuma’s team to appear at Cabinet meetings attired appropriately.

2009 Report Card: Muddling along in the C class

It was called "the gentleman’s C", the grade that scions of wealthy families could achieve while waltzing through university with a minimum of study.

Freedom's prisoners

Niren Tolsi looks at where we’ve come from and where we’re headed.

Mzansi's groove

From Moses Molelekwa to Fokofpolisiekar, the BLK JKS to the Kalahari Surfers, the M&G writers rate a decade in South African music.

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