Jazz aficionado Gwen Ansell reports on the Cape Town International Jazz Festival’s headline attractions.
Loyal fans of her Roman private eye Falco who pick up Lindsey Davis’s latest novel, <em>Rebels and Traitors</em>, may be disappointed.
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/ 22 February 2010
Gwen Ansell looks at the latest fantasy novels to hit the shelves.
Gwen Ansell applauds English absurdism, silly names and genuinely stylish use of language
in the further saga of Arthur Dent.
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/ 22 January 2010
Songs of Migration contains the best stage representation of the textured influences of migrant communities in South African cities.
There is magic in <i>Black Diamond</i>, Zakes Mda’s gritty tale of class and crime, writes Gwen Ansell.
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/ 20 November 2009
Fantasy — by definition — deals in improbable transitions. One bite and you’re a vampire; one wave of the wand and you’re a dragon.
Take a trip with the Mail &Guardian to Cosmo City, the future perfect of housing policy. Or is it?
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/ 26 November 2008
Gwen Ansell reviews <i>Anathem</i> by Neal Stephenson.
Gwen Ansell reviews The Palgrave History of Science Fiction by Adam Roberts andChimurenga 12 &13: Dr Satan’s Echo Chamber.