FictionReviewRush's quirky 1991 novel highlights the disjunction between ideals and realities at a women-only utopia in the KalahariNelson Denoon, intellectual ideologue and founder of Tsau, an experimental women-only utopia in the Kalahari, has all the hallmarks of the thinking woman's crumpet. He is a man whose very dreams are "noetic", and, as such, is the infinitely worthy study of the novel's narrator, an American anthropologist in her 30s who gradually insinuates herself into his bed.

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‘I had a voice like something you’d hear moaning in the woods late of a night’: Ralph Stanley performing in South Carolina, 2008. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex/Shutterstock‘I had a voice like something you’d hear moaning in the woods late of a night’: Ralph Stanley performing in South Carolina, 2008. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex/ShutterstockCountryObituaryRalph Stanley obituaryBluegrass musician with an ‘old-time mountain voice’ who found new audiences when his work featured in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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Burning Man revellers dance at sunrise. The 10-day desert festival is turning 30 this year, but a lot has changed since is started on a beach in San Francisco. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/ReutersBurning Man revellers dance at sunrise. The 10-day desert festival is turning 30 this year, but a lot has changed since is started on a beach in San Francisco. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/ReutersBurning Man festival This article is more than 7 years oldThis article is more than 7 years oldBurning Man was never meant to be about money, but an influx of wealthy festivalgoers has led its founder to liken some parts of it to a ‘gated community’