China Mieville’s 2010 <em>Kraken</em> is likewise a vehicle for satirising war, the Cold War’s successor — the West’s new crusades.
The authors’ sensitive approach on foreign terrain is gripping and incisive, writes <b>Gwen Ansell</b>.
The Joy of Jazz festival is one of the South Africa’s biggest music events, but its curation isn’t as well thought-out as it should be.
Anybody who knows South African jazz knows the words to Hugh Masekela’s 1974 <em>Stimela/Coal Train</em>.
Musicians are different. Share space with one and you’ll learn.
Prolific fantasy writer Robin Hobb has described her two most recent novels as her return "after a rather long vacation".
Composer Steve Dyer is definitely on a high. He’s concluding rehearsals for the world premiere of his large-scale work, <i>Rebirth</i>.
Checked your solido album lately? Depressing, isn’t it, how old you’re looking: almost like some gnarled outworlder.
<em>Gwen Ansell</em> speaks to two veterans of the apartheid era who dazzled the Cape Town International Jazz Festival.
Schizophrenia is the name of the game on the Johannesburg jazz scene, says trumpeter Marcus Wyatt.