The 1950s: A South Afrrican childhood: allusions in a landscape (1954) --
Hassan in America (1955) --
Egypt revisited (1959) --
Apartheid (1959). The 1960s: The Congo (1961) --
A bolter and the invincible summer (1963) --
Censored, banned, gagged (1963) --
Great problems in the street (1963) --
Notes of an expropriator (1964) --
Taking into account: Simone de Beauvoir's Force of circumstance (1966) --
One man living through it (1966) --
Why did Bram Fischer choose jail? (1966) --
The short story in South Africa (1968) --
Madagascar (1969). The 1970s: Merci Dieu, it changes: Accra and Abidjan (1971) --
Pack up, black man (1971) --
Unchaining poets (1972) --
The new black poets (1973) --
A writer's freedom (1976) --
English-language literature and politics in South Africa (1976) --
Letter from Soweto (1976) --
What being a South African means to me: address at the University of Cape Town (1977) --
Transkei: a vision of two blood-red suns (1978) --
Relevance and commitment (1979) --
Pula!: Botswana (1979). The 1980s: The prison-house of colonialism: Ruth First's and Ann Scott's Olive Schreiner (1980) --
Letter from the 153rd state (1980) --
The South African censor: no change (1981) --
Unconfessed history: Alan Paton's Ah, but your land is beautiful (1982) --
Mysterious incest: Patrick White's Flaws in the grass: a self-portrait (1982) --
The child is the man: Wole Soyinka's Aké: the years of childhood (1982) --
Living in the interregnum (1983) --
The idea of gardening: J.M. Coetzee's The life and times of Michael K (1984) --
New notes from underground: Breyten Breytenbach's Mouroir (1984) --
The essential gesture (1985) --
Letter from Johannesburg (1985) --
Huddleston: a sign (1988) --
The gap between the writer and the reader (1989) --
the final solution: the case of Salman Rushdie
The African pot (1989). The 1990s: A writer's vital gift to a free society: The Satanic verses (1990) --
Freedom struggles out of the chrysalis (1990) --
Sorting the images from the man: Nelson Mandela (1990) --
Censorship and its aftermath (1990) --
Joseph Roth: labyrinth of empire and exile (1991) --
Turning the page: African writers on the threshold of the twenty-first century (1992) --
Beyond myth: Mandela's mettle (1993) --
Rising to the ballot (1994) --
Letter from South Africa (1995) --
Cannes epilogue (1995) --
Remembering Barney Simon (1995) --
The status of the writer in the world today: Which world? Whose world? (1997) --
The poor are always with us: the eradication of poverty (1997) --
From a correspondence with Kenzaburo Oe (1998) --
Octavio Paz: poet-archer (1999) --
When art meets politics (1999) --
A letter to future generations (1999) --
Five years into freedom: my new South African identity (1999) --
Hemingway's expatriates: a way of looking at the world (1999). The 2000s: Personal Proust (2000) --
Africa's plague, and everyone's (2000) --
What news on the Rialto? (2001) --
The dwelling place of words (2001) --
The entitlement approach (2001) --
The ballad of the Fifth Avenue Hotel (2001) --
Chinua Achebe and Things fall apart (2002) --
Joseph Conrad and Almayer's folly (2002) --
A coincidence of wills? (2003) --
Fear eats the soul (2003) --
Living with a writer (2003) --
With them you never know: Albert Memmi (2003) --
William Plomer and Turbott Wolfe (2003) --
Questions journalists don't ask (2003) --
"To you I can": Gustave Flaubert's November (2004) --
Leo Tolstoy and The death of Ivan Ilyich (2005) --
Home truths from the past: Machiavelli or Erasmus? (2005) --
Witness: the inward testimony (2006) --
Desmond Tutu as I know him (2006) --
Lust and death: Philip Roth's Everyman (2006) Faith, reason and war (2006) --
Naguib Mahfouz's Three novels of ancient Egypt (2007) --
Experiencing two absolutes (2008) --
The lion in literature (2006).
