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Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

The Editor of “Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | July 28, 2025

Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today

Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today

The Author of “The Hollow Half” Explores Language, Silence, and Being

By Sarah Aziza | April 22, 2025

The Former Head of Human Rights Watch on the Challenges of Reporting on the Abuses of Israel’s Government

The Former Head of Human Rights Watch on the Challenges of Reporting on the Abuses of Israel’s Government

Kenneth Roth on Penalizing Journalists for Addressing Palestinian Persecution

By Kenneth Roth | March 17, 2025

Truth and Reconciliation: <br>Ten Books That Explore South Africa’s Identity

Truth and Reconciliation:
Ten Books That Explore South Africa’s Identity

Lauren Francis-Sharma Recommends Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, J. M. Coetzee, Mohale Mashigo, and More

By Lauren Francis-Sharma | February 11, 2025

How Nelson Mandela Became a Pop-Cultural Icon Through Music

How Nelson Mandela Became a Pop-Cultural Icon Through Music

Jonny Steinberg on Jerry Dammers and How a Famous Concert in the 1980s Brought Mandela New Fame

By Jonny Steinberg | May 11, 2023

On the Groundbreaking Art of Bascove’s Book Covers

On the Groundbreaking Art of Bascove’s Book Covers

From J.M. Coetzee to Alice Walker, a Book Designer Who Took Risks

By Rebecca Rego Barry | May 3, 2022

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The Complex Freedom of Creating Art as a Black Woman in Post-Apartheid South Africa

By Colleen van Niekerk | October 4, 2021

On J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron: Perennially, Lamentably, Current

By John Freeman | October 18, 2019

Edward Said on the Death of American Activist Rachel Corrie

By Edward Said | April 29, 2019

Glimpses of a Transformative Primary School in Johannesburg

Glimpses of a Transformative Primary School in Johannesburg

How Race and Class Divisions Still Shape South African Lives

By Malaika wa Azania | November 19, 2018

Audre Lorde: We Must Learn to Use Our Power

Audre Lorde: We Must Learn to Use Our Power

On Apartheid, Police Brutality, and Internationalism

By Audre Lorde | September 11, 2017

Silence is an Occupation all Its Own

Silence is an Occupation all Its Own

Speaking with Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman about Israel and Palestine

By Ilana Masad | June 5, 2017

Trevor Noah on Growing Up in South Africa Under Apartheid

Trevor Noah on Growing Up in South Africa Under Apartheid

"Where most children are proof of their parents’ love, I was the proof of their criminality."

By Trevor Noah | December 2, 2016

Using the Lies of Fiction to Get to the Truth of Apartheid

Using the Lies of Fiction to Get to the Truth of Apartheid

Michelle Pretorius Wrestles with Her Country's Past

By Michelle Pretorius | July 21, 2016