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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • October 13, 2021
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Best Friends

  • Tshego Letsoalo
  • October 6, 2021
“Speaking English so well” seemed to be the key to open many doors.
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Love Thy Neighbor: Talking with Yewande Omotoso

  • Khanya Mtshali
  • August 30, 2017
Writer, poet, and architect Yewande Omotoso discusses her second novel, The Woman Next Door, Cape Town’s haunting beauty, and mythologies about motherhood.
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“Language Orthodoxy,” the Adichie Wars, and Western Feminism’s Enduring Myopia

  • Sarah T.
  • April 6, 2017
Adichie is far more significant than her accusers seem to know.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sandra Meek

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • May 24, 2016
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Sandra Meek about her new collection An Ecology of Elsewhere, writing landscapes, and the power of syntactic density.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Bill Cosby’s Faux Legacy

  • Josie Pickens
  • August 8, 2015
Bill Cosby was never the man, the icon, the protector and illustrator of black culture, the guide, the genius we have created in our minds.
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Latent Forgiveness

  • Bryan Washington
  • June 23, 2014
At The New Republic, Eve Fairbanks offers an illuminating profile of Adriaan Vlok, a former apartheid leader turned evangelist: As we stopped at a series of dusty little nursery schools,…
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Agaat

  • Luke Gerwe
  • May 20, 2010
In musical prose and multiple perspectives, a South African novel tells the story of a dying woman, a dying farm, and a dying country.
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Not-So-Ancient History

  • Matt McGregor
  • October 19, 2009
A first novel set in modern Zimbabwe begins: “Two days after I turned fourteen the son of our neighbor set his stepmother alight.”
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