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
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
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
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 ...
When movies drew in the crowds
The 1950s produced some powerful films, many still seen as classics today
BOOK REVIEW: Dance of the Trillions
Dance of the Trillions leaves many mysteries about global capital flows unexplained
PODCAST | ‘Thuma mina’ was meant for Jacob Zuma
Sunday Times journalist Qaanitah Hunter tracks the genesis of ‘thuma mina’ and how it became the tagline of Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a flying saucer?
Numerous reports of mysterious flying objects were reported in the aftermath of World War 2, and rumours compelled officials to issue statements denying that ...
Books: ’Tis the season to get reading
David Gorin rounds up the top novels and nonfiction, as well as a collection of short stories, to add to your summer break must-absorb list
France’s final blow in the Far East
After a 55-day siege, on May 7 1954, a small French-held stronghold fell to Vietnamese troops. The colonial power’s empire in the region was no more
BOOKS: Charles van Onselen’s latest work goes down a dark track
The Night Trains etches the lives of millions of people into one’s mind
READ, THE BELOVED COUNTRY: 6 decades of SA literature
If you want to know a country, listen to its stories. What is written and what is read by that nation is a reflection of the anxieties and realities of the time
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