DE-PRESSED
By Richard Steyn
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And few businessmen have fallen harder than Canadian newspaper magnate Conrad Black, alias Lord Black of Crossharbour, founder and ex-chairman of Hollinger International Inc, publishers of the London Da...
MOUTH WATERERS
By Linda Stafford
If you love cookbooks - or are in search of a gift for someone who does - the pickings, as ever, are rich. And this year local foodie personalities are giving overseas celebrity chefs a run for their money: the sensual covers and interiors of their c...
MORTAL TRACES
By Peter Wilhelm
South African readers will be aware of Joan Didion - if remotely, like the late Susan Sontag - as an American intellectual, a wordsmith who has chronicled the past 40 years or so of what she terms the "cultural breakdown" of a society in wh...
MISSING LINKS
By David Williams
This will be a useful emergency gift for anyone interested in SA sport and who is in the R150-R200 price range on your Christmas list. I say "emergency" at the risk of sounding like Scrooge, but though the book is certainly pleasing in its pre...
DID YOU HEAR ?
The publisher of Delivery, the glossy, bi-monthly magazine of the department of provincial & local government, is located at "5 Spin Street" in Cape Town. A doctor tells a patient in need of a heart transplant that he's in luck;...
IDEAS STILL TIMELY
By Richard Steyn
Our government's decision to stimulate economic growth by means of state-directed pump-priming, instead of the market-friendly remedies of the Washington consensus, would please John Kenneth Galbraith, professor emeritus of economics at Harvard Unive...
PICTORIAL WEALTH
By Sven Lünsche and Linda Stafford
Three coffee-table books, always a thoughtful gift for lovers of photography, come highly recommended this season. They are Africa - Continent of Contrasts by Philip Briggs (Struik, R295, 296pp); Dwellers in Eden - A Day in the Afr...
SAVOURING GRACE
By Justice Malala
There is no joy to be had from the fall of Jacob Zuma, from the tawdry spectacle that is unfolding before us HHHHHAssaggi Illovo Post Office Centre Rudd Road Illovo Tel: (011) 268-1370 *****Your work here is done, my son **** M...
IDEAS STILL TIMELY
By Richard Steyn
Our government's decision to stimulate economic growth by means of state-directed pump-priming, instead of the market-friendly remedies of the Washington consensus, would please John Kenneth Galbraith, professor emeritus of economics at Harvard Unive...
