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Local romance author takes the game of love to the next level
Rebecca Jackman-Derman reviews 'Playing Flirty' and 'Next Level Love' duology by Shameez Patel
Rebecca Jackman-Derman/01 SEPT 2026
Fear Not Monsters in the Dark... Fear The Ones in your Psyche.
Khazimla Louw reviews 'The Enumerations' by Máire Fisher
Khazimla Louw/01 SEPT 2026
What's Love Really Got to Do With It?
Rushdiyah Narker reviews 'Love' by Nthikeng Mohlele
Rushdiyah Narker/01 SEPT 2026
Some Reinventions Aren't Escapes
Sumaya Adams reviews 'It's Complicated' by Nivashni Nair Sukdhev
Sumaya Adams/31 AUG 2026
Resilience and Romance with Real South African Realities
Sumaya Adams reviews 'Wisani and the Bafokeng Brothers' by Thandi Moagi
Sumaya Adams/31 AUG 2026
Strange. Traumatic. Mystical: When Cows Fly, Women Rise
Ralton Morrison reviews 'Flying Cows and Other Traumas' by Philisiwe Twijnstra
Ralton Morrison/31 AUG 2026
What We Inherit When We Are Xhosa in an English World
Brick Mbekwa reviews 'Inheritance' by Athambile Masola
Brick Mbekwa/31 AUG 2026
No Crumbs Left Behind …
Fatima Bheekoo-Shah reviews 'Curry and Bread' by Pravasan Pillay
Fatima Bheekoo-Shah/31 AUG 2026
Who among us is brave enough to have hope?
Riley Herbert-Henry reviews 'The Dogs of Vivo' by Sven Axelrad
Riley Herbert-Henry/30 AUG 2026
Light Enough to Finish in a Day. Not Deep Enough to Answer: Why Am I Like This
Fatima Bheekoo-Shah reviews 'Why Am I Like This' by Qaanitah Hunter
Fatima Bheekoo-Shah/30 AUG 2026
Ghosts Are Not the Scariest Thing in This South African Gothic Thriller
Rushdiyah Narker Reviews 'Cape Fever' by Nadia Davids
Rushdiyah Narker/30 AUG 2026
A Woman. A Body. A Testimony.
Jennifer Grace Morris reviews 'Disabled, But' by Kirsten Deane
Jennifer Grace Morris/28 AUG 2026
All The Things They Left Unsaid
Shaheena Links reviews 'Some Unspoken Thing' by Rushdiyah Narker
Shaheena Links/28 AUG 2026
Poetry, Translation and Resistance that Kruip and Crawl Off the Page
Mia Winter reviews 'Kruiper-Crawler' by Shane Van Der Hoven
Mia-Lee Winter/28 AUG 2026