Barry Gilder: 3 books

‘Writing about jazz is like dancing about architecture,' observed TheloniousMonk. It's possibly one of the few times he was wrong. Jazz poetry is almostas old as jazz itself. Poets such as Thulani Davis, Langston Hughes and ourown Keorapetse Kgositsile and Mongane Wally Serote have long heard thepatterns...

"If you picked up this book in the expectation of revelling in the true confessions of a disaffected spy-master – put it back. If you opened this book in the hope of enjoying the confidences of a disillusioned cadre of the South African liberation movement –close it, put it down. If you bought...

Although conceived and birthed well before the ANC's December 2017 elective conference and the changes of the guard that ensued, The List imagines a ‘New Dawn' for South Africa in the closing years of the 2010s. But is it dawn or dusk?Rumours have abounded since the early days of South African democracy,...