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The Johannesburg Review of Books. We are @ joburgreview on most platforms – see you there!
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined February 2014
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'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an African in possession of a curiosity about literature has read a book by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and that it probably changed the direction of their life . '—Lebohang Mojapelo.
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, literary giant and cultural revolutionary, died on 28 May, 2025, aged eighty-seven. Ngũgĩ was one of Africa’s most influential literary voices, a tireless champion of indigenous...
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RT @itsmeganross: Such excellent writing here in @JoburgReview. ‘Once Removed feels rare’—Kris Van der Bijl reviews David Mann’s debut sh….
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David Mann's short story collection Once Removed is inventive, and in tune with what it means to be a young artist in a contemporary struggle for literary self-identity, writes Kris Van der Bijl....
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RT @ChristaKuljian: Very happy to have an excerpt of Our Science, Ourselves in the latest issue of The Johannesburg Review of Books! @Jobur….
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RT @pclimb: A profoundly beautiful exploration of what ageing means for those who lived in compact with racial separation—Wamuwi Mbao revie….
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What does it mean to want grace after such a thing as apartheid? What might it look like? God’s Waiting Room is willing to plunge into the corporeal, embodied messiness of these questions, writes...
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RT @itsmeganross: I did a thing! 🍒📖 . Read ‘Sweet Meat’, new short fiction by Megan Ross via @joburgreview.
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The JRB presents new short fiction by Megan Ross. Sweet Meat 'Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at...
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RT @oliviasnaije: Fanon again and again. Read the Preface to Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing by Nigel C Gibson via @….
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The JRB presents an excerpt from Nigel C Gibson’s new book, Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing. Frantz Fanon: Combat BreathingNigel C GibsonWits University Press Preface: What would Fanon say? The...
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The first issue of Volume 9 of The Johannesburg Review of Books is here!. Dig in:
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Dear friends, today's the day. Yes, the long-awaited day. That day. The day a new issue of The JRB arrives. It's CHOCK-A-BLOCK. Get it first, in a few short hours—subscribe here (always free) ⤵️.
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RT @WamuwiM: Wind down with a bit of fiction - The Johannesburg Review of Books' Fiction Issue is here to wrap up the year!.
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RT @christinas_word: ‘Poetry as an act of clairvoyance’—Finuala Dowling reviews Heart’s Hunger, a selection of poetry by Karen Press https:….
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To read Karen Press's Heart’s Hunger is not just to know where we have come from, but to feel in a very visceral way what it has meant, what it does mean, to have been born here, writes Finuala...
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RT @ShareenSingh8: I loved reading this interview with writer Ivan Vladislavic . ‘Johannesburg provokes extreme responses, one way or the….
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JRB Editor Jennifer Malec interviews The JRB Patron Ivan Vladislavić about his new book, The Near North. The Near NorthIvan VladislavićPicador Africa, 2024 Read an exclusive excerpt from The Near...
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RT @HhouseBooks: An excerpt from Karen Jennings' next novel - exclusively presented from @JoburgReview : #author….
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RT @RaberRichard: ‘In Africa, the conservative realism of the military mind met the liberatory spirit of the decolonising mind’—Read an exc….
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The JRB presents an excerpt from Samuel Fury Childs Daly’s new book, Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire. Soldier′s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after EmpireSamuel Fury Childs...
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RT @vknxu: ‘Poetry as an act of clairvoyance’—Finuala Dowling reviews Heart’s Hunger, a selection of poetry by Karen Press .
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To read Karen Press's Heart’s Hunger is not just to know where we have come from, but to feel in a very visceral way what it has meant, what it does mean, to have been born here, writes Finuala...
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RT @saaleha: I was interviewed by author, poet and translator Makhosazana Xaba, for the latest issue of the @JoburgReview .The interview….
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This is the eighth in a series of long-form interviews by Patron Makhosazana Xaba to be hosted on The JRB, which focus on contemporary collections by Black women and non-binary poets. The others can...
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Welcome to Vol. 8, Issue 4 of The Johannesburg Review of Books—the Stranger than Fiction Issue! Dive in here:
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Yewande Omotoso • Mandla Langa • Karen Jennings • Simon van Schalkwyk • Masiyaleti Mbewe • Wamuwi Mbao • Werner Pretorius • Niq Mhlongo • Finuala Dowling • Makhosazana Xaba • Saaleha Idrees Bamjee •...
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You've been waiting, you've been wondering, and now it's confirmed: the next issue of The JRB is IMMINENT. Get it straight to your inbox (always free). ⤵️.
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Gabrielle Mudiwa has won the first ever Achmat Dangor Literary Prize!.
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Gabrielle Mudiwa has won the first ever Achmat Dangor Literary Prize, an award dedicated to nurturing young, previously disadvantaged writers working in all genres. The award was set up to enable a...
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