Poetry by Khadija Heeger, from Thicker Than Sorrow
The JRB presents an excerpt from Khadija Heeger’s poetry collection, Thicker Than Sorrow. Thicker Than SorrowKhadija HeegerModjaji Books, 2022 ~~~ Witness…
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Helping new perspectives and worlds of experience be heard—Karin Schimke visits Paulet House, home of the Jakes Gerwel Foundation writer’s residency
The R335 curves around the eastern border of Addo Elephant Park and spools north through the cushiony green hills of…
Writing Athlone—Gabeba Baderoon’s latest poetry collection The History of Intimacy maps the small hurts of apartheid, writes Toni Giselle Stuart
Toni Giselle Stuart reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s poetry collection The History of Intimacy, which won the 2019 University of Johannesburg Main…
‘Man’s afraid of a few sharks’—Read an excerpt from Poacher: Confessions From the Abalone Underworld by Kimon de Greef and Shuhood Abader
Flares exploded in the sky. Stun grenades fired into the water. From the dunes came a volley of gunshots. It…
All the President’s Keepers: Imraan Coovadia reviews Jacques Pauw’s sensational exposé on Jacob Zuma and the gangster state
Jacques Pauw’s new book The President’s Keepers shows that children will have it harder tomorrow and that the children of South…