On her first visit to South Africa the American punk rock icon finds Jo’burgers having a "deeply positive energy".

If Spider-Man III is a popcorn movie, it should whiz by with lots of thrills and little to angst over, but it drags itself out like it’s Dr Zhivago, writes Shaun de Waal

Lynley Donnelly reviews the second collection of short stories by Neil Gaiman titled Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders.