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Cover art of ‘The Geometry of Colour’ by Robin Rhode (Rhodeworks/Skira), edited by Ashraf Jamal

Rhode’s canvas: Westbury walls

An edited version of the essay ‘Broken Wall: Robin Rhode’s Theatre of Place’ from the book ‘The Geometry of Colour’ (Rhodeworks/Skira)

Botes pushes the edges of provocation with his erotic drawings

Art and graphics

Conrad Botes makes a comment on censorship, while Zapiro has his finger on the pulse as usual

Khumalo uses fictional characters to illuminate a real, historical situation

New vision of a historical moment

The reader navigates themes such as migration, black masculinity, displacement, aspirations, racial identity and sexuality before wokeness

Batting for the empire

Batting for the empire

An exhaustive book provides the political, social and sporting backdrop to the 1912 triangular Test tournament between England, Australia and SA.

Naivity

Naivity, novelty and the writer’s art

<b>Imraan Coovadia</b> finds the points of difference in two authors’ approaches to writing.

Does a virgin have to be female?

Does a virgin have to be female?

An alternate take on the Messiah’s birth brings modern women’s issues into the picture.

The wild life of a mild revolutionary

Erich Rautenbach begins this wild and somewhat melancholic memoir with his arrest by two drug-squad cops.

Old magic and future worlds

<b>Gwen Ansell</b> rounds up some of the latest science fiction and fantasy releases.

Multilayered but one-sided

It has much going for it, but Stephenson’s ­stereotypical treatment of Muslim ­terrorists lets his latest novel down.

Son of HAL feeds on fear

<em>The Fear Index</em>, a financial what-if, takes place entirely on the day that the Blair-Brown years officially ended: May 6 2010, election day.

What might have been

What might have been

Ivan Vladislavic plays not only with the idea of unwritten books or stories, but also with the idea of finishing itself.

A bloody good read

This ultra-readable pop-historical epic is the fourth bulky instalment of a sequence about the rise of the Mongol khans.

Conquering the epics

Conquering the epics

The creator of the popular <i>Conqueror</i> and <i>Emperor</i> series does immaculate detail through broad strokes

Ivan in bite-size complexity

Ivan in bite-size complexity

For avid readers of Vladislavic’s eight books, this collection is a ­worthy, accessible ­reference to keep close.

Stocking fillers?

Darryl Accone breaks down Exclusive Books’s list of recommended summer reading.