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The JRB, Vol. 1, Issue 3 (July 2017)
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Welcome to the third issue of The Johannesburg Review of Books
Thank you for subscribing to The Johannesburg Review of Books. We're delighted to present our complete third issue, now online at www.johannesburgreviewofbooks.com—with links to all the reviews, essays, poetry, photographs and other items in Vol. 1, Issue 3, below. We sincerely hope you enjoy what's on offer, and welcome your feedback here.

[Exclusive interview and audio] 'White fragility ends discussions, and ends lives': Claudia Rankine speaks in Soweto

'It began with a burial site': Nadia Davids on her new work, What Remains, a play about slavery and the haunted city

‘What is the acceptable amount of blood for good literature?’ Panashe Chigumadzi reviews Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Four Poems by Kelwyn Sole
A steady vigil over the slow death of the anti-apartheid dream: Rustum Kozain reviews Kelwyn Sole's latest poetry collection, Walking, Falling

[Sponsored] Win a copy of The Man Who Founded the ANC

New short fiction: ‘Love Back’ by Julie Nxadi

[City Editor] Niq Mhlongo meets Shaka Zulu at a restaurant in Cologne, Germany
A dazzling new voice: Olufunke Ogundimu reviews Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky
3 great hopes for a post-apartheid culture, gone too soon: Hedley Twidle on Phaswane Mpe, Moses Taiwa Molelekwa, K Sello Duiker
Eking out a deeper truth on the rough seas of historical fiction: Wamuwi Mbao reviews Fred Khumalo’s Dancing the Death Drill
‘I appreciate stories that mess with me a little’: Yewande Omotoso on her latest book, The Woman Next Door

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[Photo Editor] Original portraits by Victor Dlamini: Zakes Mda; and Zakes Mda with Mandla Langa

‘Les chaussures’: Short fiction by Edwige-Renée Dro from new translation experiment La Shamba
Finding beauty under apartheid: Interview and excerpt from The Art of Life in South Africa
The JRB exclusive: Karel Schoeman's final pilgrimage, detailed in a guest house visitors' book

[Sponsored] The White Road – the chilling new thriller from Sarah Lotz – out in June

Video: Clip from Siphiwo Mahala’s The House of Truth starring Sello Maake ka Ncube
Keep on Swinging: Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83 wins the German International Literature Award
How a Pan-African journal and American glossies put Bongani Madondo on the Write Path
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