BOOK REVIEW: Mythbusting economic clichés
With a sparkle, a new book looks at the way economies develop — from an African perspective
FRIENDSHIP: How Covid tests the ties that bind
Books that shine a light on friendship and why we’re so anxious today
Defending the indefensible: Malcolm Gladwell’s The Bomber Mafia
This book takes a clinical look at how two World War 2 US military leaders plotted a new way to wage war: from the sky, with bombs
BOOKS: Prose of a post-Arab spring Middle East
These novels provide insights from history, and stir emotions through stories that resonate
Christo Wiese: The three lessons I learnt from Steinhoff
An updated edition of Pieter du Toit’s book, ‘The Stellenbosch Mafia’, elaborates on the fallout between Johann Rupert and Christo Wiese, who has been badly ...
BOOK REVIEW: A look back on Beatlemania
Two new books about The Beatles have David Gorin and Sarah Buitendach’s words flowing out ‘like endless rain into a paper cup’
Bookmark these: 10 books for the holidays
From history in technicolour to a dystopian wake-up call, David Gorin rounds up his 10 literary picks for the holidays (and beyond)
BOOK REVIEW: Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
Loved or reviled, four years after the 2016 US general election, Hillary Clinton remains a figure around whom so many contradictions and divisions coalesce
BOOK REVIEW: Philippe Sands’ The Ratline
The Ratline is a meandering biography only partly about a man who deserved his painful demise. That he lived in terrible times was a tragedy for millions of ...
The secret life of books
A story unfolds and it’s not on the pages — it’s about the pages, writes Luke Alfred
Wattpad: reading the future
This is the tale of how Wattpad is changing the world of storytelling one upload at a time. Jo Buitendach braved the new digital frontier
SARAH BUITENDACH: When lockdown bites, we’re in need of comfort
Sarah Buitendach looks at how escapist reading and other pleasures can lighten the emotional load of Covid-19
Eddie Jones autobiography: the best sports book in a while
What does it take to write a good rugby book? Eddie Jones and Donald McRae show how it’s done
BOOKS: Pile these up next to your bed
Kate Rogan, owner of Joburg’s beloved Love Books, on what she recommends you should start your reading blitz with
BOOK REVIEW: When the ox wagon was king of the road
One tollgate recorded 4,500 ox wagons a year travelling from the Cape to the interior
BOOK REVIEW: Nechama Brodie’s Three Bodies
The follow-up to her 2018 fiction debut, Knucklebone, it is another tale that delves into the crimes Reshma Patel and Ian Jack investigate in and around Gauteng
Waiting, and more waiting, for the Anglo Boer War siege of Mafeking to end
Skilled riflemen turned a train into a mobile fortress, but before the British force in the town was relieved in May 1900 ammunition was getting scarce and ...
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