Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

Source Acknowledgements

Pieces in this collection first appeared in the following publications: A South African Childhood; Cannes Epilogue (The New Yorker); Hassan in America (The Forum); Egypt Revisited (National English Review); Chief Luthuli; New Notes from the Underground (Atlantic Monthly); Apartheid; The Congo; Party of One (Holiday); A Bolter and the Invincible Summer; Taking into Account; Pula! (London Magazine); Censored, Banned, Gagged (Encounter); Great Problems in the Street; Madagascar (The Essential Gesture by Nadine Gordimer, ed. Stephen Clingman); Notes of an Expropriator; The Prison-House of Colonialism (Times Literary Supplement); One Man Living Through It (Magazine of the World Press); Why Did Bram Fischer Choose Jail?; Letter from Johannesburg; The Short Story in South Africa (Kenyon Review); Merci Dieu, It Changes (Atlantic Travel African Development); Pack Up, Black Man; Unchaining Poets; Censorship — The Final Solution; Five Years into Freedom: My New South African Identity; Africa’s Plague, and Everyone’s; Lust and Death (New York Times); The New Black Poets (Dalhousie Review); A Writer’s Freedom; The South African Censor: No Change; Censorship and its Aftermath (Index on Censorship); English-Language Literature and Politics in South Africa (Journal of Southern African Studies); Letter from Soweto; Letter from the 153rd State; Mysterious Incest; The Child Is the Man; Living in the Interregnum; The Idea of Gardening; The Gap Between the Writer and the Reader; Joseph Roth (New York Review of Books); What Being a South African Means to Me (South African Outlook); Transkei: A Vision of Two Blood-Red Suns (GEO); Unconfessed History (New Republic); The Essential Gesture (The Age Monthly Review); Huddleston (Trevor Huddleston: Essays on His Life and Work, ed. Deborah Duncan Honor); The African Pot (Die Zeit); A Writer’s Vital Gift to a Free Society; Atlantis (Guardian); Freedom Struggles out of the Chrysalis; Remembering Barney Simon (Independent); Sorting the Images from the Man (Newsweek); Turning the Page (Transition); Beyond Myth; Rising to the Ballot; The Dwelling Place of Words (Washington Post); Personal Proust (Salmagundi); What News on the Rialto? (Los Angeles Times); Edward Said (Sunday Independent (Johannesburg)); Susan Sontag (Sunday Times (South Africa)); Desmond Tutu As I Know Him (Tutu As I Know Him, eds Lavinia Crawford-Browne and Piet Meiring); Experiencing Two Absolutes (The Star (South Africa)). The following pieces were first published as introductions to editions of the works discussed: Chinua Achebe and Things Fall Apart; Joseph Conrad and Almayer’s Folly; With Them You Never Know; William Plomer and Turbott Wolfe; ‘To You I Can’; Leo Tolstoy and The Death of Ivan Ilyich; Naguib Mahfouz’s Three Novels of Ancient Egypt. The following pieces were first delivered as addresses or lectures: Relevance and Commitment; Letter from South Africa; Our Century; The Status of the Writer in the World Today; The Poor Are Always with Us; Octavio Paz; When Art Meets Politics; A Letter to Future Generations; Hemingway’s Expatriates; The Entitlement Approach; Living with A Writer; Home Truths from the Past; Witness: The Inward Testimony; Faith, Reason and War; The Lion in Literature.