Living in Hope and History

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, to speak the unspeakable, to ask difficult questions.—Salman Rushdie Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals, and Politics The Status of the Writer in the World Today: Which World? Whose World? Turning the Page: African Writers and the Twenty-first Century References: The Codes of Culture The Lion, the Bull, and the Tree Günter Grass The Dialogue of Late Afternoon Joseph Roth: Labyrinth of Empire and Exile An Exchange: Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer How shall we look at each other then?—Mongane Wally Serote 1959: What Is Apartheid? How Not to Know the African A Morning in the Library: 1975 Heroes and Villains Crack the Nut: The Future Between Your Teeth How Shall We Look at Each Other Then? 29 October 1989—A Beautiful Day, Com Mandela: What He Means to Us The First Time Act two: One Year Later The Essential Document As Others See Us Labour Well the Teeming Earth The ceaseless adventure.—Jawaharlal Nehru The Writer's Imagination and the Imagination of the State Writing and Being Living on a Frontierless Land: Cultural Globalization Our Century Notes