Lesego Rampolokeng’s latest collection reveals a poet who is adept at harsh, harrowing imagery and flights of sonic beauty.
Some local jazz heavyweights and a clutch of crowd pullers are setting the right tone for next year’s festival.
Speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, thriller – who cares about genres when the writing is as good as in the novels reviewed here.
As the bassist prepares for his Joy of Jazz show, Gwen Ansell unpacks the musician’s life and the label “avant-garde”, which he has been linked to.
Following Terry Pratchett’s death, Gwen Ansell pays tribute to a writer whose scale of vision and literary skill has made him a legend.
Healthily contaminated, this keenly anticipated science fiction trilogy cannot be neatly categorised.
William Gibson’s 11th novel is a gripping read that explores a world of multiple, branching timelines.
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/ 28 November 2014
Award-winning debut is a powerful meditation on class, gender, identity and imperial expansionism.
It’s Robin Hobb in John le Carré’s territory, in the spy truism and the paralysing miasma of memories.
The role and relevance of Marxism to a wide variety of issues – ranging from democracy to the environment – is explored in a new book.