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City Hall in Cork, which has become a city of roistering jazz and film festivals. Pictures: PATRICIA MCCRACKEN

Slouching in Irish Mammy’s slippers

Potato power still rules in the lush green pastures and rolling hills of Cork, writes Patricia McCracken

BOOK REVIEW: Anchorless in an Afrikaner diaspora

Picture: THINKSTOCK

SJ Naudé is a decisively postapartheid writer and a global citizen millions of miles removed from his predecessors of even two decades, writes Leon De Kock

British author Terry Pratchett dies

British author Terry Pratchett. Picture: AFP

British author of the popular ‘Discworld’ series of fantasy novels has died of a form of Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 66, his publishing house says

BOOK REVIEW: Dark stains of an oil state

José Eduardo Dos Santos, right, and François Hollande.  Picture: REUTERS/REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE

Foreigners chuckle as Angola’s elite splashes its money while its poor suffer, writes Simon Kuper

BOOK REVIEW: The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel is an ungainly fable that reflects none of Ishiguro’s myriad and subtle gifts, writes Michiko Kakutani


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