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‘Michael stands at the edge of the world and looks up into the eternal stars’—Read an excerpt from David Ralph Viviers’s debut novel Mirage

February 17, 2023February 17, 2023The JRBLeave a Comment

The JRB presents an excerpt from Mirage, the debut novel by David Ralph Viviers. MirageDavid Ralph ViviersUmuzi, 2023 Read the…

A triumph of a novel—Itumeleng Molefi reviews Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s The First Woman

November 19, 2020December 28, 2020Itumeleng MolefiLeave a Comment

The First Woman can be read as Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s answer to people who like to defend patriarchal power by…

‘These were not men fighting, but corpses’—Read an excerpt from Marcus Low’s Asylum

February 5, 2018February 15, 2018The JRBLeave a Comment

Read an excerpt from Marcus Low’s debut novel Asylum—an existential thriller set in a quarantine facility in the arid Karoo—which…