Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Mbeki and After: Reflections on the Legacy of Thabo Mbeki | 2010 | Buy |
| Granta 114: Aliens | 2011 | Buy |
| The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated | 2022 | Buy |
Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa | 1995 | Buy |
| Portraits of Power: Profiles in a Changing South Africa | 1996 | Buy |
| Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred | 2007 | Buy |
| A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream | 2009 | Buy |
| Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir | 2014 | Buy |
| Sue Williamson: Life and Work | 2016 | Buy |
| The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers | 2020 | Buy |
Mark Gevisser is a South African journalist and author whose work focuses on politics, identity, and sexuality. His earliest book, Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa (1995), was one of the first collections to document queer experience in post-apartheid South Africa. He followed that with Portraits of Power (1996), a set of profiles on South African political figures during the country’s transition period.
His biography of Thabo Mbeki, published in 2007 and later expanded as A Legacy of Liberation (2009), drew on years of research and interviews to examine Mbeki’s political career and its effect on South Africa’s democracy. Lost and Found in Johannesburg (2014) took a more personal approach, blending memoir with the history of the city where Gevisser grew up.
The Pink Line (2020) is perhaps his most widely read book internationally. It traces the lives of people on both sides of new borders drawn around sexuality and gender identity, from Egypt to India to the United States. Gevisser’s writing is research-heavy and grounded in the lives of the people he profiles.