Telling Times contains all of Nadine Gordimer’s major essays, dating from the early 1950s to the present and collected in one volume for the first time. Beginning with her stand against apartheid in the 1950s and continuing on up to her fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa today, the collection documents some of the most daunting moral issues in the twentieth century—and shows how Gordimer remained in the centre of these great debates. Also included are many of her most important critical essays on writers and works from across the literary spectrum. In the tradition of Gore Vidal’s United States and Clive James’s Cultural Amnesia, this major volume bears witness to Gordimer’s moral and political engagement in many of the most crucial issues of the last half-century.

Praise For Telling Times

“[A] landmark collection... the clarity of her voice and the deep impress of her observations make for high-voltage reading... at once personal and magisterial.”
—Booklist