Jennifer Malec

Wamuwi Mbao • Makhosazana Xaba • Simon van Schalkwyk • Khadija Tracey Heeger • Sean Jacobs • Barbara Boswell • Kevin Goddard • Muthi Nhlema • Ivor W Hartmann • Sanya Osha • Khumisho Moguerane • Victor Dlamini • Tymon Smith • Sandile Ngidi • Dawn Garisch • Deborah Seddon • Mehita Iqani • Eckard Smuts • Duane Jethro • Abbey Khambule • Shayera Dark • Muthi Nhlema • Kopano Matlwa • Werner Pretorius • Dyondzo Kwinika • Olufemi Terry • Deborah Posel • Adéwálé Májà-Pearce • Blessing-Miles Tendi...

Zanta Nkumane • Shayera Dark • Wamuwi Mbao • Karen Jennings • Makhosazana Xaba • Thabile Makue • Rustum Kozain • Hedley Twidle • Sarah Uheida • Mariama Bâ • Pravasan Pillay • Alex La Guma • Nicky Falkof • Hannah J Dawson • André Odendaal • Roger Field • Mehita Iqani • Renugan Raidoo • Tymon Smith • Elleke Boehmer • Tanya Zack • Victor Dlamini • Jennifer Malec Welcome to the second issue of Volume 9 of The Johannesburg Review of Books! In this issue, Zanta Nkumane reviews Ocean Vuong’s The...

The JRB Editor Jennifer Malec chats to Karen Jennings about her new novel, Crooked Seeds, and making your reader’s skin crawl. Jennifer Malec for The JRB: Before settling in to write these questions, I decided to read John Ashbery’s ‘Soonest Mended’, which you quote from in the epigraph to Crooked Seeds. It’s an excellent poem; it’s almost impossible to understand, but it leaves you with a sense of its meaning.