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Loud Explosions Silent Cries

Loud Explosions Silent Cries

This upcoming event at Bridge Books presents a powerful live reading from Loud Explosions, Silenced Cries: Reflections on the War in Gaza, a touching 2025 anthology edited by veteran educator...

Loud Explosions Silent Cries

This upcoming event at Bridge Books presents a powerful live reading from Loud Explosions, Silenced Cries: Reflections on the War in Gaza, a touching 2025 anthology edited by veteran educator...

Listening Spaces: The Miraculous Mandarin

Listening Spaces: The Miraculous Mandarin

Picture this: it’s 1918 Budapest, and Béla Bartók has just dropped a ballet so jaw-droppingly violent it got slapped with a ban after exactly one performance. Forget your typical "romantic orchestral sweeps." This...

Listening Spaces: The Miraculous Mandarin

Picture this: it’s 1918 Budapest, and Béla Bartók has just dropped a ballet so jaw-droppingly violent it got slapped with a ban after exactly one performance. Forget your typical "romantic orchestral sweeps." This...

Body Problems Book Launch

Body Problems Book Launch

Join us this Saturday the 14th for Professor Wolff’s talk on their book, Body Problems: In Body Problems, M. Wolff offers groundbreaking insight into Sally Gross, a South African intersex priest and...

Body Problems Book Launch

Join us this Saturday the 14th for Professor Wolff’s talk on their book, Body Problems: In Body Problems, M. Wolff offers groundbreaking insight into Sally Gross, a South African intersex priest and...

House of Shem: Why We're Listening to Classical Music Differently at Bridge Book

House of Shem: Why We're Listening to Classical...

Is classical music relevant to us in Johannesburg, 2026? And how do we engage with it honestly - acknowledging its colonial baggage whilst claiming its transformative potential for ourselves? Every...

House of Shem: Why We're Listening to Classical...

Is classical music relevant to us in Johannesburg, 2026? And how do we engage with it honestly - acknowledging its colonial baggage whilst claiming its transformative potential for ourselves? Every...

Happy New Year from Bridge Books

Happy New Year from Bridge Books

New Year, Same Bridge, but Better We hope you’ve had a restorative festive break, and that you’re ready to take on 2026. Aptly, our shop’s new signage has us feeling...

Happy New Year from Bridge Books

New Year, Same Bridge, but Better We hope you’ve had a restorative festive break, and that you’re ready to take on 2026. Aptly, our shop’s new signage has us feeling...

The evicted booksellers of Johannesburg

The evicted booksellers of Johannesburg

Like many Joburgers, I’m happy to see the city sprucing up for the G20. But it’s hard not to think back to those heady days of the World Cup, when...

The evicted booksellers of Johannesburg

Like many Joburgers, I’m happy to see the city sprucing up for the G20. But it’s hard not to think back to those heady days of the World Cup, when...