The JRB Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Either/Or
Elif BatumanThe JRB‘It is heartening to read introspective characters who don’t believe everything they think is interesting ...’ @WamuwiM reviews Elif Batuman’s new novel Either/Or in our latest issue—out today! https://t.co/vS47xBUqKD
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tomb of Sand
Geetanjali ShreeThe JRB‘A laughing elegy, that retains hope in the face of impending doom ...’ Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell win 2022 International Booker Prize for Tomb of Sand: https://t.co/pFSy5cbawq
Hardcover, 2023
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Recitatif: A Story
Toni MorrisonThe JRB‘Recitatif is cunning in its ability to expose us.’ In our new issue—out today!—@MasiyaletiMbewe reflects on Toni Morrison’s only short story: https://t.co/7laaj8X7mj
Hardcover, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
An Illuminated Darkness
Jacques CoetzeeThe JRBJacques Coetzee has won the 2022 Ingrid Jonker Prize for his ‘delicate, deeply felt’ debut collection An Illuminated Darkness: https://t.co/SzrK2ex8pY
Paperback, 2020
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
Susan WilliamsThe JRBKeen to read an excerpt from one of the @WindhamCampbell winners? Here's one from Susan Williams' White Malice, featuring Wole Soyinka ⤵️ https://t.co/8Cm9QZybBO https://t.co/8ihYNztBKc
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The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth OzekiThe JRB‘This is absurd, I don’t win things ...’ American–Canadian author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki has been announced as the winner of the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction, for her fourth novel The Book of Form and Emptiness: https://t.co/VHaKAA9mKs
Paperback, 2022
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
An Island
Karen JenningsThe JRB‘When An Island was longlisted for The Booker Prize, most people would be excited, but I was initially angry ...’ Karen Jennings chats to @projectjennifer about writing, fame and loneliness (Plus: exclusive audio): https://t.co/lkrv3AjMqN
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously
Olúfemi TáíwòThe JRBA decolonisation that dare not speak its name—@GeorgeHullUCT reviews Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò: https://t.co/C64GyIVaMy
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Things I Have Withheld
Kei MillerThe JRBKei Miller’s award-winning collection of essays Things I Have Withheld takes the measure of what it means to read and be read as raced, writes @WamuwiM in our new issue: https://t.co/OaPh8M6pTB
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Be a Revolutionary
C. a. DavidsThe JRB‘I was constantly weaving fact and fiction, and blurring truth with fable.’ In our new issue—out today!—read @ca_davids in conversation with @efemiachela about her new novel How to Be a Revolutionary: https://t.co/meIxGtmdwI
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book