Books
The Short Story After Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023)
Awards
Honourable Mention at the British Association for Contemporary Literature Monograph Prize
Reviews
Michael Chapman, ‘The Short Story in South Africa: “Thinking with Form”’, Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 37,1 (2025), pp 29–38
Marta Fossati, ‘The Short Story After Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature, Graham K. Riach (2023)’, Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, 14, 2 (2025), pp. 272-6 (DOI: 10.1386/fict_00116_5)
Baron Glanvill, ‘The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature by Graham K. Riach (Review)’, Research in African Literatures, 55,1 (2025), pp. 206–8. (DOI: 10.2979/ral.00054)
Jude Nwabuokei, ‘The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature by Graham K. Riach’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2024), pp. 470-4 (DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2024.2429278)
Mathilde Rogez, ‘Graham K. Riach, The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2023)’, Journal of the Short Story in English. Les Cahiers de La Nouvelle, 83 (2024), pp. 251–55.
Eckard Smuts, ‘Short Takes on Disjointed Times: Literary Form and Social Thought in Graham K. Riach’s The Short Story After Apartheid’, Safundi (2024), pp. 361-369 (DOI: 10.1080/17533171.2024.2375848)
Timothy Wright, ‘A Formalist in the Trenches: Graham K. Riach’s The Short Story After Apartheid’, Safundi (2024), pp. 370-77 (DOI: 10.1080/17533171.2024.2375837)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ (London: Routledge, 2017)
Articles
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‘Ageing, Care, and Memory in East Asian Anglophone Literature’, Recherche littéraire/Literary Research, (Commissioned for 2026)
‘Self, World, Environment: Ecocritical Affordances in Yves Bonnefoy and Michel Henry’, Nordic Journal of Francophone Studies (Forthcoming 2025)
‘Opaque Poetics in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper’, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 62, 4 (2021), pp. 404-413
‘Henrietta Rose-Innes and the Politics of Space’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 55, 1 (2020), pp. 22-37
‘“Concrete Fragments”: Interview with Henrietta Rose-Innes’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 55, 1 (2020), pp. 111-120
‘The Late Nadine Gordimer’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 42, 6 (2016), pp. 1077-1094
Awarded the Terence Ranger Prize for the best article by an early career author
‘Sticking Together: Ivan Vladislavić’s Collage Practice’, Safundi, 16, 1 (2015), pp. 78-95
Book Chapters
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‘Modernism and Music in South Africa’, South African Modernism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) (Forthcoming 2026)
‘J.M. Coetzee and the Work of Music’, The Bloomsbury Companion to J.M. Coetzee (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 407-414
‘Myth, Orality, and the African Novel’, Cambridge Critical Concepts: Magical Realism and Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 148-163
‘Ways of Staying, Ways of Saying: From Black Writing in Britain to Black British Writing’, The 1960s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction, ed. by James Riley, Melanie Seddon, Phil Tew (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), pp. 137-164
Reviews
‘“Anodyne” Cambridge History Still Hits the Mark’, review of The Cambridge History of South African Literature, SLiPNET, 2012