Phaswane Mpe – The Johannesburg Review of Books

[City Editor] The search to find a new vocabulary for the new city—Lidudumalingani muses on literature and lockdown Joburg

April 10, 2020December 28, 2020Lidudumalingani1 Comment

Whatever writing emerges from this moment will be an attempt to build a new Johannesburg, writes guest City Editor Lidudumalingani….

[Conversation Issue] [City Editor] Is it possible, or necessary, to write a friendlier and prettier Johannesburg? A conversation between Lidudumalingani and Outlwile Tsipane

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020LidudumalinganiLeave a Comment

As part of our January Conversation Issue, guest City Editor Lidudumalingani chats to Outlwile Tsipane about the literatures of Johannesburg….

This is how we lost him—Bongani Madondo and Rofhiwa Maneta remember K Sello Duiker

April 1, 2019April 1, 2019Rofhiwa Maneta6 Comments

K Sello Duiker emerged on the African literary scene with a visceral two-punch combo, the novels Thirteen Cents (2000) and…

[The JRB Daily] [World Aids Day] Two Koos Prinsloo short stories translated into English for the first time—among the first fictional texts about HIV/Aids in South Africa

December 1, 2018December 4, 2018Lizzy Attree1 Comment

In The JRB’s forthcoming Fiction Issue, we will feature two short stories by Koos Prinsloo, published for the first time…

[Conversation Issue] [City Editor] Niq Mhlongo reveals how he missed his own debut book launch, leading to an astounding moment at the Abantu Book Festival twelve years later

January 15, 2018June 30, 2019Niq MhlongoLeave a Comment

As part of our January Conversation Issue, The JRB presents City Editor Niq Mhlongo’s keynote speech from the 2017 BRICS…

The Johannesburg Review of Books Vol. 1, Issue 3 (July 2017)

July 3, 2017September 14, 2018Jennifer Malec1 Comment

The third issue of The Johannesburg Review of Books is here, with some big reviews, in-depth interviews and quality ruminations…

‘Three great hopes for a post-apartheid culture, gone too soon’—Hedley Twidle reflects on Phaswane Mpe, Moses Taiwa Molelekwa and K Sello Duiker

July 3, 2017April 13, 2020The JRB1 Comment

Firepool: Experiences in an Abnormal World Hedley Twidle Kwela, 2017 The following is an excerpt from Firepool: Experiences in an…