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Gwen Ansell

The instrumentalist arrives

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Jazz aficionado Gwen Ansell reports on the Cape Town International Jazz Festival's headline attractions.

Rebels and Traitors

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Loyal fans of her Roman private eye Falco who pick up Lindsey Davis's latest novel, <em>Rebels and Traitors</em>, may be disappointed.

Stranger than fiction

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Gwen Ansell looks at the latest fantasy novels to hit the shelves.

Quills dripping satire

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Gwen Ansell applauds English absurdism, silly names and genuinely stylish use of language in the further saga of Arthur Dent.

Soundscapes in movement

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Songs of Migration contains the best stage representation of the textured influences of migrant communities in South African cities.

Gripped by status anxiety

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There is magic in <i>Black Diamond</i>, Zakes Mda's gritty tale of class and crime, writes Gwen Ansell.

Transition to Greedism

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Fantasy -- by definition -- deals in improbable transitions. One bite and you're a vampire; one wave of the wand and you're a dragon.

A mixed masala future

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Take a trip with the Mail &Guardian to Cosmo City, the future perfect of housing policy. Or is it?

Into the world that is Arbre

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Gwen Ansell reviews <i>Anathem</i> by Neal Stephenson.

Displacing time and place

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Gwen Ansell reviews The Palgrave History of Science Fiction by Adam Roberts andChimurenga 12 &13: Dr Satan's Echo Chamber.

Music for people

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There's a growing volume of scholarship around South African music.

Diamonds in the dust

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South Africa's musical gems, from old-timers to the new generation, are given voice in two new books, writes Gwen Ansell.
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