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Booktok, performance and the politics of reading
In the age of BookTok, reading has evolved from a solitary pleasure into a public performance. This article delves into how social media has reshaped our relationship with books,…
In a world built for scrolling, can book fairs still survive?
A quiet conversation at the Kingsmead Book Fair became a reflection on shrinking attention spans, digital culture and the fragile future of reading
When art breaks the frame
What happens when artists challenge beauty, publishing and politics? A fair like no other
New ways of dreaming with iwalewabooks
iwalewabooks offers artists, cultural workers and academics a roving space to explore aesthetic and intellectually rigorous modes of publishing
The Portfolio: Megan Ross
Author and poet Megan Ross designs books and cover artwork for a living. She speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about her process
The Portfolio: Nthikeng Mohlele
A veteran author and part-time festival director, Nthikeng Mohlele can attest to the respective experiences being irreconcilable. Or are they?
The Portfolio: Maggie Davey
Jacana Media was established in 2002. We are the preeminent independent publishing firm in South Africa. We’re devoted to our authors’ imaginations, both in fiction and…
How a pandemic took the book industry online
Writers, publishers and bookshops are trying to keep afloat during the extended lockdown with digital and virtual offerings
The business of fake science
Publishers that flout sound peer review practices encourage bogus reports with widespread ramifications
Stories in mother tongues matter
"Too often I have been on platforms that bemoan the shortage of storybooks in the mother tongue."
The pressure to publish is punitive: systems that control publishing choke creativity
Publishing in the academic world is extremely important, but why does it seem to be such a long, winding and twisted process?
Children’s book fair wants young minds to be turned on by reading
The aim of the event is to encourage young people as well as illustrators and authors.
Race to relay the Oscar Pistorius story
It’s a race that fits the Blade Runner playbook: five authors working on three “definitive accounts” all hurtling towards one deadline.
Bibliophile for all seasons
Bronwyn Law-Viljoen does not shy away from the manifold challenges of publishing and running a bookshop.
From South Asia with love
An new website is making romance stories from the region accessible to a diaspora across the world.