Featured Literary Series

The Modise Papers

Citizen Modise:
Dispatches from the Precipice

A fired journalist arrives in Johannesburg with a suitcase full of shame and theories he can't afford. Follow Modise 2PM Moriri as he navigates unemployment, Woolworths breakdowns, and the catastrophic admin of reinvention.

New column every week.
Column 01 available now.

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Not only do we make and publish our own publications, we also curate and retail 2nd books.

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Publishing

We offer a selection of limited edition and open edition books, zines, artists' books (Picture Books) and an online magazine. Feel free to contact us if you got something you want published.

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  • Gnossienne Launch Report

    Gnossienne Launch Report

    Man who wears vests everywhere takes umbrage at other people's fashion choices... at a book launch no less.

    Gnossienne Launch Report

    Man who wears vests everywhere takes umbrage at other people's fashion choices... at a book launch no less.

  • It's a Wrap: Spotify & Masturbatory Year-end Prattling

    It's a Wrap: Spotify & Masturbatory Year-end Pr...

    By Leo Vanzini ‘The role of the intellectual is no longer to change society but rather comment eloquently on it.’ -I forgot who said this. The role of the pseudo-intellectual...

    It's a Wrap: Spotify & Masturbatory Year-end Pr...

    By Leo Vanzini ‘The role of the intellectual is no longer to change society but rather comment eloquently on it.’ -I forgot who said this. The role of the pseudo-intellectual...

  • Modise Moriri vs. The Matlala Parallax and the Mathys Situation

    Modise Moriri vs. The Matlala Parallax and the ...

    In the new piece, Modise watches Cat Matlala testify at a committee hearing and becomes obsessed with Matlala’s strange pauses, water sips, and small facial expressions. What begins as political...

    Modise Moriri vs. The Matlala Parallax and the ...

    In the new piece, Modise watches Cat Matlala testify at a committee hearing and becomes obsessed with Matlala’s strange pauses, water sips, and small facial expressions. What begins as political...

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