Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel Shuggie Bain. Chair of judges Margaret Busby…
Wamuwi Mbao, Maaza Mengiste, Connor Cogill, Itumeleng Molefi, Adekeye Adebajo, Flora Veit-Wild, Bolu Babalola, Nakhane, Jacob Dlamini, Victor Dlamini, Shanice…
In The Lie of 1652, Patric Tariq Mellet fills in the ‘before’ that was of little interest to those invested…
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers. In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Maaza Mengiste’s novel The Shadow King, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction. The…
The First Woman can be read as Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s answer to people who like to defend patriarchal power by…
Critical But, Stable, the new novel from bestselling author Angela Makholwa, is out now from Pan Macmillan. ‘It’s Angela’s wit…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Love in Colour, the debut collection of short stories by Bolu Babalola Love in…
The JRB presents an excerpt from No Be From Hia, the debut novel by Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda. No Be From…
A Promised Land is a riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe…
Colin Grant’s Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation is an important and valuable text that has captured the voices that…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park by Jacob Dlamini. Safari Nation:…
LAPA Publishers and Catalyst Press invite you to join in and share the best in African literature this 2020 Reading…
The JRB presents an excerpt from ‘The Fool’ by Nakhane, from Exhale, a new anthology of queer writing. Exhale: Queer…
The JRB presents an exclusive excerpt from They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir by Flora Veit-Wild. They Called You Dambudzo:…
Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi: History, Criticism, Celebration by Sabata-mpho Mokae and Brian Willan is out in November from Jacana Media! Celebrating the…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Shanthini Naidoo’s book Women in Solitary: Inside the Female Resistance to Apartheid. Women in…
The JRB presents an excerpt from The Pride of Noonlay, the debut collection of short stories by Shanice Ndlovu. The…
The Johannesburg Review of Books presents new poetry by Connor Cogill. ~~~ Light through Water Now here, in this perfect pool, so new…
The JRB presents tunes and accompanying editorial from our EAP member Tymon Smith. I’m moving so all the records have…
Victor Dlamini is The JRB’s Photo Editor. We feature his work on our Instagram channel. See this ten-year retrospective of his work. View this…
The winners of the 2020 South African Literary Awards have been announced. The winning writers were announced in a virtual…
Prominent writer, academic and critic Stephen Gray has died. Gray passed away in Johannesburg on Thursday, 22 October, at the…
The poet Angifi Proctor Dladla has died, at the age of sixty-nine. The news was confirmed by Dladla’s family on…
Irish author Anna Burns has won the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award—known as the world’s richest annual literary prize—for her…
Makena Onjerika, Wamuwi Mbao, Christa Kuljian, Shayera Dark, Sanya Osha, Sihle Ntuli, Zoë Wicomb, Sibongile Fisher, Nkiacha Atemnkeng, Nicky Falkof,…
Wamuwi Mbao reviews Avni Doshi’s Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Burnt Sugar. Burnt SugarAvni DoshiPenguin, 2020 The rather selfish belief that one’s…
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from So, for the Record: Behind the Headlines in an Era of State Capture by…
By Christa Kuljian and Makhosazana Xaba Transformation Who I was is not who I am.And who I amis not who I…
This longlist for the seventh annual Short Story Day Africa Prize has been announced! The prize was founded in 2013,…
A Family Affair, the new novel by bestselling author Sue Nyathi, will be out from Pan Macmillan in October 2020! ‘A…
Europatriarchy takes centre stage in Minna Salami’s elegant book of essays Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone, writes…
Sanya Osha remembers the late Harry Garuba, who died earlier this year. Since he passed in February this year, friends…
VBS: A Dream Defrauded by Dewald van Rensburg is out now from Penguin Random House. Originally the Venda Building Society, VBS…
The JRB presents a new short story by Makena Onjerika. ~~~ Black Beauty Our housegirl Scolastica only ever wore a…
Achmat Dangor, one of The JRB’s founding Patrons, died in September. Ben Williams remembers him. It is a year of…
In Conversations with Influencers, the ebook companion to Become an Influencer, leading, verified influencers, as well as advertising strategists, reveal the secrets,…
I am a Western visa rejection expert. Three times—even though I work at an airport. But I am mostly a…
It’s an odd, even an imperfect location to build a museum—to build, many may argue, any kind of structure at…
Jacana Media hosted a Don’t Shut Up Conversation titled ‘Femme Erasure: Our Queer Undoing’ recently. Watch the recording below. Throughout…
