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The JRB, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (February 2018)
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Welcome to Vol. 2, Issue 2 of The Johannesburg Review of Books
Thank you for subscribing to The JRB. We're delighted to present our new issue, online at www.johannesburgreviewofbooks.com. We sincerely hope you enjoy what's on offer, and welcome your feedback here.

Exquisite, but a reminder that there will never be another Baldwin: TO Molefe appraises I Am Not Your Negro, a year after the dual book-film release

[City Editor] Read an exclusive excerpt from Niq Mhlongo’s forthcoming book: Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree

[Temporary Sojourner] Efemia Chela reads The Ultimate Tragedy, the first novel from Guinea-Bissau ever to be translated into English

JM Coetzee is tired: Wamuwi Mbao reports from the ‘Photographs from Boyhood’ exhibition in Cape Town

‘I started writing the book in a fit of anger with Fees Must Fall activists’—Rehana Rossouw chats to Jennifer Malec about New Times

[Sponsored] ‘A Woman’s Place is in The Struggle’—Read an excerpt from The Knock on the Door

[Photo Editor] Original portraits: Victor Dlamini’s tribute in pictures to Hugh Masekela, the magician

‘These were not men fighting, but corpses’—Read an excerpt from Marcus Low’s Asylum
 [New short fiction] ‘The day the white people walked into the sea’ by Stacy Hardy
Three poems by Shailja Patel

[Sponsored] Read the opening chapters of Peter Carey’s new book A Long Way From Home

Ben Okri demonstrates the value of dreams in a ramshackle world: Wamuwi Mbao reviews The Magic Lamp
Diane Awerbuck mostly does not review Stephen and Owen King’s Sleeping Beauties, but mostly remembers her mother, horror fan supreme
A flawed take on immigration and the rise of the right: Lebohang Mojapelo reviews Sasha Polakow-Suransky’s Go Back to Where You Came From

[Sponsored] Mozambique and Brazil: Analysing and investigating a historical relationship

Ta-Nehisi Coates is not the voice of black people: Kibo Ngowi considers the cult of intersectionality
Snapshots of Death: Allegorical short fiction from Algerian writer Chawki Amari
Sea-shaken love from ‘The Cargo Hold of Stars’ by Mauritian poet Khal Torabully

[Sponsored] ‘Good writing inspires creativity!’ – Mary Lynn Bracht chats about her debut novel, White Chrysanthemum

Letter: Translating Augustine: Sarah Ruden responds to David van Schoor
Hugh Ramapolo Masekela, legendary jazz musician, RIP
[The JRB Daily] The early years: Read an excerpt from Hugh Ramapolo Masekela’s autobiography, Still Grazing
[The JRB Daily] [Photo Editor] Listen to Victor Dlamini’s 2007 interview with Mmatshilo Motsei on her book The Kanga and the Kangaroo Court
[The JRB Daily] 2018 9mobile Prize for Literature shortlist announced

[The JRB Daily] ‘This is unlike any other literary festival’—Sifiso Mzobe and Shubnum Khan talk writing at the Abantu Book Festival
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