The abolition of slavery, formalised gender discrimination, apartheid and other reprehensible ways of being did not occur simply through continued…
Editor’s note: by agreement with the author, this article has been removed from The JRB, ahead of its reappearance in…
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers! From ‘the folk hero of Davos’, Fox…
It happens that words become too inconsistent to communicate shock. Not that we can’t guess at the terrifying explosion, whose…
In continuing solidarity with the progressive literary community and all who fight racism and anti-Black violence, The JRB presents this…
The Accidental Mayor: Herman Mashaba and the Battle for Johannesburg by Mashaba’s former chief of staff Michael Beaumont is out now…
Nkiacha Atemnkeng1619 Ranch Road no. 16 San MarcosTX 78666USA Akale StreetFiango, KumbaSouth West RegionCameroon Dear Papa, Greetings from a sci-fi…
In February 2020, poet and academic Stella Nyanzi was acquitted and released from prison after being held for eighteen months…
Many authors dream of being published, but they do not want to surrender total control to a traditional publisher. Paper…
Imani Perry’s Breathe is a memoir committed to the radical hope that sees Black boys as more than problems to…
Mary Carman reviews Debating African Philosophy, a new collection of essays that originated during student protests and demands for the…
Congratulations to author Mubanga Kalimamukwento for winning the Best Fiction Award at the 2020 CDI Zambia Tell Your Own Story National Book…
Some days are longer than others, and during this Covid-19 controlled reality, it seems like someone out there somewhere keeps…
Photographer George Hallett died this week. See The JRB’s obituary here, and an appreciation of Hallett by our Photo Editor,…
The Johannesburg Review of Books presents a new poem by Allan Kolski Horwitz. ~~~ NO ONE IS SAFE …
The JRB presents an exclusive excerpt from Leïla Slimani’s new book Sex and Lies. Sex and LiesLeïla Slimani (translated by…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Aravind Adiga’s new novel Amnesty, a riveting, suspenseful and exuberant novel about a young…
‘How do we craft a healthy, dignified blackness, in a world where blackness is a captured identity location that needs…
The JRB presents an excerpt from How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang, a revisionist immigrant…
The JRB presents an excerpt from The World Looks Like This From Here: Thoughts on African Psychology, by psychologist and…
This excerpt is based on a chapter from a Zimitri Erasmus’s book Race Otherwise: Forging a New Humanism for South…
United States publisher Catalyst Press has acquired the rights to publish Sifiso Mzobe’s award-winning novel Young Blood in North America….
The four books shortlisted for the Ingrid Jonker Prize for English Poetry have been announced. The prize, one of South…
The JRB Photo Editor Victor Dlamini pays tribute to George Hallett, who passed away today. I first got to know…
Header image: Brother George, by The JRB Photo Editor Victor Dlamini Legendary South African photographer George Hallett has died, according…
Media24 Books has released a statement in the wake of the outcry over the lack of diversity in this year’s…
Yesterday, the winners of this year’s annual Media24 Books Literary Prizes were announced. When The JRB published the news this…
Header image: Jonny Steinberg, Trevor Sacks, Zirk van den Berg, Loftus Marais, Edyth Bulbring, Fanie Viljoen, Theodore Key The winners…
The shortlist for the 34th Arthur C Clarke Award has been announced, including The Old Drift by Zambian author Namwali…
Acclaimed author Elsa Joubert has died at the age of ninety-seven. Joubert’s son, Nico Steytler, has confirmed that his mother…
Moroccan author Youssouf Amine Elalamy has won the second annual Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique, for his novel C’est…
The regional winners of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, known as the world’s ‘most global literature prize’, have been…
Alain Mabanckou • Ama Ata Aidoo • David Goldblatt • Tayari Jones • Jacob Dlamini • Abi Daré • Lidudumalingani…
The JRB presents a selection of photographs and personal stories from Ex Offenders at the Scene of Crime: South Africa…
Read and stay safe with this unmissable collection of Pan Macmillan SA ebooks! Available for both Amazon Kindle and Kobo ereaders, enjoy non-fiction inspiration,…
When did I first discover that although I was an only child, my father was not my father and mine…
The JRB presents an exclusive excerpt from The Death of Comrade President, the new novel from Alain Mabanckou. The Death…
Congratulations to Pieter-Louis Myburgh, who has won the Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Reporting. The Taco Kuiper Award, now in…
The JRB presents an exclusive excerpt from The Terrorist Album: Apartheid’s Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police by Jacob Dlamini….
The JRB presents an excerpt from Malibongwe: Poems from the Struggle by ANC Women—a new edition of a lost piece…
