The JRB presents an excerpt from Writing Around the Wicket: Race, Class and History in South African Cricket by Niren…
Karen Jennings was recently longlisted for the Booker Prize, for her novel An Island. Here she chats to The JRB…
For reasons technical, historical and—above all—thematic, Dickens is writ large in African literature, writes Adekeye Adebajo. As we approach the…
The JRB Editor Jennifer Malec reviews Spring, the third book in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet, a strange beast. SpringAli SmithHamish Hamilton, 2019…
Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet is a lesson in how to create novels that reflect the now in all its glory and…
