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GET IN THERE!!!! LEWIS HAMILTON WINS THE BRITISH GRAND PRIX!!!! 🏆 What a moment. Incredible!

Um, did you make it to the end of Childish Gambino's "Lithonia" video? Watch it here: rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

New York Times’ “Best Books of the Century” List Was an Unforgivable Erasure of African Literature" Ainehi Edoro-Glines, Phd on the inherent racism of reproducing the Euro-American view of literature well, the NYT is the "best" at ERASURE! a little thread 1/ lithub.com/the-new-york-t…

I was fortunate enough to read Nick Clelland's novel Good Hope. It tells the story of Lisa, a woman whose recently moved to the newly independent state of Good Hope, after Western Cape province declared independence from the rest of South Africa. news24.com/life/books/rev…

Bela Lugosi in Dracula 1931

If I post this just know my friends have turned their backs on me.

Table Mountain from De Waal Park

I explored the Folk Horror elements of Ottessa Moshfegh's novel Lapvona krisvanderbijl.com/2024/08/04/fol… #BookTwitter #HorrorCommunity #writersoftwitter

I'm happy to share that my review of Vajra Chandrasekera The Saint of Bright Doors and Wole Talabi (CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS out now) Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon has been published in Wasafiri 40th Anniversary Issue - Futurisms. wasafiri.org/issues/wasafir…

Order this milestone issue direct from our website, or subscribe to the magazine anytime in September and receive 20% off subscriptions using the code BDAY20 at checkout. wasafiri.org/issues/wasafir…

I wrote about Memory and Identity: Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga. Thanks to Archipelago Books for sending it through to me. krisvanderbijl.com/2024/10/06/sis… #books

Officially running my first Cape Town Marathon this Sunday

My book review of Sam Wilson's novel The First Murder on Mars. news24.com/life/books/rev… #BookTwitter #crime

On this day, 33 years ago, David Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch" (1991) premiered in London, UK.

There is no land “confiscating” in South Africa. The Expropriation Act is far from what folks make it sound. wandilesihlobo.com/2025/01/28/a-w…

Does this mean the American Digital Nomads in SA are going home? Asking for people who want rentals to return to normal

Such excellent writing here in The JRB. ‘Once Removed feels rare’—Kris Van der Bijl reviews David Mann’s debut short story collection  johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/03/25/onc… via @joburgreview