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I have a new short story in the latest issue of the Johannesburg Review of Books. It involves surfing, fog, and bad financial decisions. johannesburgreviewofbooks.co…
A timely and well-informed piece by Cherryl Walker. dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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Welcome to Vol. 8, Issue 4 of The Johannesburg Review of Books—the Stranger than Fiction Issue! Dive in here: johannesburgreviewofbooks.co…
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Come work with me!
Successful candidates will be expected to begin full-time study in February 2025.
Graham K. Riach is a remarkably perceptive reader of South African short fiction. I learned a great deal from his excellent monograph, "The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature." Here's my review for Safundi: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Some breath taking scenes in old woodland today. This kind of thing is irreplaceable & yet when it comes up for sale it's advertised as potentially suitable for development. Makes my blood boil. Old woodland should all be protected.
Incredible.
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Please see, and share, our CFP for a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on “Planetary Fiction: African Literature and Climate Change.”
Guest Editors: Nedine Moonsamy (Johannesburg) and David Shackleton (Cardiff)
press.jhu.edu/journals/mfs-m…
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There is increasing evidence that the world has warmed faster over the past 15 years than it has since the 1970s. Surface records, ocean heat content, and the Earth's energy imbalance all support an acceleration of warming, as I argue in today's @nytimes: nytimes.com/2023/10/13/opini…
I know COP doesn’t have much credibility as it is but come on. If you’d made this up for a movie it would be bad satire.
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Seven out of eight planetary boundaries passed. One to go: ft.com/content/b59f9fea-500c…
This is an incredible achievement by one of our third-year students in the English Department at @StellenboschUni . Well done Hana Gammon!
@HanaGammon is the youngest #CWPrize regional winner in the history of the prize! Congratulations Hana! ✨
👇 via @voertaal
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“Perhaps in a few years the academy will be overrun with anarchists. But I’m not holding my breath.” — David Graeber
I asked DALL·E to create an image for George Saunders's (very) short story "Sticks" (unm.edu/~gmartin/535/Sticks.…). The results are... perfect?
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I sent my necktie windward
and watched it fall, ferreting
through midday traffic.
Familiar men unburdened me of my possessions
and I gave all, willingly, and said
‘now leave me.’
New poetry by @the_next_corner, in out latest issue: johannesburgreviewofbooks.co…
The whole discussion around having gas in the house hits differently if you also have Eskom in the house nytimes.com/2023/01/25/opini…