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/ 18 January 2008
Shaun de Waal samples the works of three South African poets as they get out of town.
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/ 18 January 2008
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews Elizabeth: The Golden Age
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/ 11 January 2008
The word of God, like language, is constantly evolving. Shaun de Waal looks at recent books about the human and the divine.
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/ 7 December 2007
Shaun de Waal reviews Philip Rotha’s novel, <i>Exit Ghost</i>
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/ 7 December 2007
Movie of the week: Shaun de Waal reviews <i>The Golden Compass</i>, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.
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/ 30 November 2007
Gavin Hood’s latest offering, <i>Rendition</i>, gets to the human core of the United States war on terror, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 23 November 2007
Composer Philip Miller brings South African freedom songs into dialogue with the Western-style orchestral tradition. He spoke to Shaun de Waal.
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/ 23 November 2007
Beowulf, the animated adaptation of the Old English epic poem, is causing a fair amount of overheated excitement in Hollywood.
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/ 16 November 2007
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews Robert Redford’s latest offering, <i>Lions for Lambs</i>.
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/ 6 November 2007
Given how little we know about William Shakespeare’s life, an awful lot has been written on the subject. Of course the plays and poems produce a seemingly endless amount of commentary and interpretation and reinterpretation, but the hard facts of his life are few and far between. As Bill Bryson writes: ”Shakespeare, it seems, is not so much a historical figure as an Âacademic obsession.”