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The JRB, Vol. 1, Issue 5 (September 2017)
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Welcome to the fifth issue of The Johannesburg Review of Books
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‘With any luck people will be reading The Sellout fifty years from now’ – an interview with Man Booker Prize-winning author Paul Beatty

A rollicking tale: Alex Lichtenstein reviews Charles van Onselen’s new book The Cowboy Capitalist

Exclusive interview: Petina Gappah speaks about the highs and lows of her writing career, and reveals details of her next book

Two new poems by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Ten years, thirty portraits: A Victor Dlamini retrospective
Sisonke Msimang on how Howard W French maps the road between the Africa of her childhood and the China of her imagination

[Sponsored] Defining Black Consciousness for the first time: An excerpt from The Testimony of Steve Biko

James Baldwin in Rhodesia: Percy Zvomuya picks out a thread from the forgotten war novel Black Fire!

‘A writer utterly in control of her medium’: Wamuwi Mbao reviews Scaachi Koul’s glittering collection of essays
Panashe Chigumadzi considers the black female body through a return to JM Coetzee's Disgrace
Salman Rushdie's finest writing in many years: CA Davids reviews The Golden House

[Sponsored] An interview with bestselling author Ali Land ahead of her SA tour
Read an exclusive excerpt from Dikeledi, the new novel from award-winning author Achmat Dangor
[City Editor] The place of the ancestors: Niq Mhlongo leaves the city to walk the hills of Mapungubwe

[Photo Editor] Original portraits of Teju Cole and Paul Beatty by Victor Dlamini

[Sponsored] Jacana Media host vital discussion on decolonising South African book editing
From the fringe to the centre: Meet ‘The New French’ in the latest issue of Words Without Borders
Mauritian author Ananda Devi wins the 2017 Firecracker Award for Fiction for Eve Out of Her Ruins

[Sponsored] Jonathan Ball Publishers giving away a book a day in September

New translation of Marie NDiaye’s psychological drama My Heart Hemmed In
[The JRB Daily] English Academy of Southern Africa Award winners announced
[The JRB Daily] JRB Contributing Editor Bongani Madondo up for Brittle Paper Literary Award

[The JRB Daily] Tribute to the extraordinary Dambudzo Marechera, thirty years after his death
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