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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 Launch Saturday, the 14th of the month, we had the pleasure of hosting M. Wolff, Associate Professor of Religion and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, for the...
Body Problems Book Launch
Body Problems Launch Saturday, the 14th of the month, we had the pleasure of hosting M. Wolff, Associate Professor of Religion and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, for the...
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
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
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...
The Chaka centenary: What, how and why
This year is the 100th anniversary of the publication of Chaka by Thomas Mofolo (yes, that’s how he spelled it). One of the wild things I’ve discovered is how often...
The Chaka centenary: What, how and why
This year is the 100th anniversary of the publication of Chaka by Thomas Mofolo (yes, that’s how he spelled it). One of the wild things I’ve discovered is how often...