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Last year New Contrast, one of SA’s very first literary journals, celebrated 60 years in print. With two editors and a many-hatted admin, we take a look at its past, present and future.

A psychology professor uses his imagination, personal and professional experience to paint a picture of the soul of Salt River in the sixties.

It seems that never before has death been so prevalent as the pandemic cuts a swathe across the world. And with death comes grief. To help you at the worst time of your life, Bridget McNulty has just produced The Grief Handbook. Hear her tell, first hear how she dealt with it herself.

The works of Shakespeare have seen any number of incarnations over the centuries. Actor and associate director Buhle Ngaba, talks about performing in the very newest, a reading of a very South African version of Hamlet – online.

The flames that swept the slopes of Table Mountain in April this year also took a devastating toll on the nearly 80,000 strong collection of books and material in the University of Cape Town’s historic Jagger Library – some of it irreplaceable. The ashes settled and tears dried, a librarian tells the tale. http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/jagger-recovery

From climate change threats to the scorched Kalahari for National Geographic, to a curious pangolin, the Psychonauts and the parlous state of public mental health, science scribe Leonie Joubert has a lot on her mind.

Into its second year and third season, the Daily Maverick podcast Don’t Shoot the Messenger is making waves both locally and across the world. Dawjee and Davis, producer and host respectively share its origins, its thinking and its lickability!

In this Lupus Awareness month of May, a young woman describes in a book called Crazy Became Me, how this unpredictable disease took hold of her life. Lupus (meaning wolf) is so called because centuries ago it was said the rash looks like a wolf bite.

A clinical psychologist shares his journey of caring for his dying mother and takes a look at the 'invisibilisation' of the caring profession.

It's World Book Day on April 23, but if Lesley Beake had her way, it would be Children's Book Day every day. A teacher and author of over