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Month: May 2017

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Africa

The Johannesburg Review of Books Vol. 1, Issue 1 (May 2017)

May 1, 2017January 2, 2018Jennifer Malec2 Comments on The Johannesburg Review of Books Vol. 1, Issue 1 (May 2017)

We are delighted to present the first issue of The Johannesburg Review of Books—comprising almost twenty reviews, essays, articles, stories,…

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Poetry

Portrait of the poet as a young genius: Bongani Madondo reviews Koleka Putuma’s Collective Amnesia

May 1, 2017May 3, 2017Bongani MadondoLeave a Comment on Portrait of the poet as a young genius: Bongani Madondo reviews Koleka Putuma’s Collective Amnesia

There is an ‘undecidable conflict’ between the poet’s desire to sing an alternative world and, as Grossman puts it, the…

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Non-fiction

[Sponsored] An excerpt from Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s new book The Republic of Gupta

May 1, 2017May 1, 2017The JRBLeave a Comment on [Sponsored] An excerpt from Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s new book The Republic of Gupta

The Republic of Gupta Pieter-Louis Myburgh Penguin Random House South Africa 2017 In The Republic of Gupta, Pieter-Louis Myburgh delves…

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International

‘You’re not a rejection machine, you’re a search engine’, or, the art of the literary review: A conversation with Philip Gourevitch

May 1, 2017May 4, 2017The JRB1 Comment on ‘You’re not a rejection machine, you’re a search engine’, or, the art of the literary review: A conversation with Philip Gourevitch

The Paris Review Interviews, a series of conversations with great writers on their art ranging from the 1950s to the…

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Fiction

The anthology we have been waiting for: Panashe Chigumadzi reviews Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins

May 1, 2017May 1, 2017Panashe ChigumadziLeave a Comment on The anthology we have been waiting for: Panashe Chigumadzi reviews Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Kathleen Collins Granta 2017 Black women as you have never seen them before, on screen…

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Fiction

[Sponsored] Submit your manuscript to Pan Macmillan during an open submissions window in May

May 1, 2017May 1, 2017The JRBLeave a Comment on [Sponsored] Submit your manuscript to Pan Macmillan during an open submissions window in May

Pan Macmillan South Africa, one of South Africa’s leading publishers, does not as a rule accept unsolicited manuscripts, but has an open…

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Poetry

New poetry by Rustum Kozain: ‘When I write’

May 1, 2017July 2, 2017Rustum KozainLeave a Comment on New poetry by Rustum Kozain: ‘When I write’

When I write Prose poem Rustum Kozain When I write, I am aware of how meaningless and ineffectual the activity…

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Johannesburg

[City Editor] Soweto’s traditional Good Friday soccer tournament: Where legends are made

May 1, 2017May 1, 2017Niq MhlongoLeave a Comment on [City Editor] Soweto’s traditional Good Friday soccer tournament: Where legends are made

The tradition of the Good Friday soccer tournament has existed for a very long time in the townships around Johannesburg,…

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Non-fiction

[Sponsored] Read John Kane-Berman’s speech from the launch of his new book Between Two Fires

May 1, 2017The JRBLeave a Comment on [Sponsored] Read John Kane-Berman’s speech from the launch of his new book Between Two Fires

Between Two Fires John Kane-Berman Jonathan Ball Publisher 2017 At recent the launch of his new book Between Two Fires:…

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Academic

On Things Fall Apart and Things Falling Apart: Simon van Schalkwyk considers modernism in the here and now

May 1, 2017May 2, 2017Simon van SchalkwykLeave a Comment on On Things Fall Apart and Things Falling Apart: Simon van Schalkwyk considers modernism in the here and now

1. Chinua Achebe, modernist What might it mean to offer a suite of lectures on Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart…

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