Further Reading
- Beauman, Sally. Review of "Livingstone's Companions," by Nadine Gordimer. New York Times Book Review (31 October 1971): 6, 22. (Lauds the stories in Gordimer's Livingstone's Companions.)
- Broyard, Anatole. "The New African Landscape." New York Times CXXI, No. 41,554 (1 November 1971): 39. (Presents a stylistic and thematic overview of Gordimer's Livingstone's Companions.)
- Digilio, Alice. "South Africa and the Storyteller." Washington Post Book World XIV, No. 29 (15 July 1984): 4-5. (Asserts that there are some weak links in Gordimer's Something Out There.)
- Enright, D. J. "Which New Era?" Times Literary Supplement, No. 4,226 (30 March 1984): 328. (Discusses Gordimer's Something Out There and asserts that "Nadine Gordimer survives as a writer of distinction by virtue less of her themes than of her distinction as a writer.")
- Hayes, Richard. "The Moment of Illumination." Commonweal LVI, No. 8 (30 May 1952): 204. (Lauds the stories in Gordimer's The Soft Voice of the Serpent.)
- Jones, D. A. N. "Limited by the Law." Times Literary Supplement, No. 3,852 (9 January 1976): 25. (Discusses Gordimer's Selected Stories and asserts that "Besides being a good sort of propaganda, these stories are gracefully and, sometimes, beautifully written, and may be read as poems.")
- Kanga, Firdaus. "A Question of Black and White." Times Literary Supplement, No. 4,619 (11 October 1991): 14. (Lauds Gordimer's brilliance in Jump and Other Stories, but points out some extravagances in her style.)
- King, Bruce. The Later Fiction of Nadine Gordimer. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, 249 p. (Provides critical analysis of Gordimer's later fiction.)
- Mathabone, Mark. "Tales of the White Tribe." Washington Post Book World XXI, No. 36 (8 September 1991): 9. (Discusses Gordimer's Jump and Other Stories.)
- Mazurek, Raymond A. "Gordimer's 'Something Out There' and Ndebele's 'Fools' and Other Stories: The Politics of Literary Form." Studies in Short Fiction 26, No. 1 (Winter 1989): 71-9. (Compares the role of politics in the work of Nadine Gordimer and Njabulo Ndebele.)
- Messud, Claire. “Lost Things Revealed.” New York Times Book Review (4 Sunday 2003): 8. (Discusses death as the unifying theme of the stories in Loot.)
- Nordell, Rod. "Miss Gordimer and Africa." Christian Science Monitor 48, No. 270 (11 October 1956): 10. (Discusses the stories in Gordimer's Six Feet of the Country and asserts "All of them go beyond provincial applications to make a statement, however bleak, however limited, on the ways of mankind.")
- Peden, William. "Eternal Foreigners." Saturday Review XXXIX, No. 43 (27 October 1956): 16-7, 25. (States that "With Six Feet in the Country Nadine Gordimer emerges from the category of gifted beginner and assumes the stature of one of the most distinguished younger contemporary writers.")
- Phelps, Lyon. "Humane Comedy." Christian Science Monitor (22 June 1965): 9. (Praises Gordimer's Not for Publication and Other Stories.)
- Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. "Figures in a Landscape of Sun and Shadow." Washington Post Book World X, No. 36 (7 September 1980): 1, 4. (Lauds Gordimer's A Soldier's Embrace.)
- Theroux, Paul. "The Presence of Africa." Chicago Tribune Book World V, No. 48 (28 November 1971): 19. (Provides a thematic overview of the stories in Gordimer's Livingstone's Companions.)
- Topping Bazin, Nancy and Marilyn Dallman Seymour. Conversations with Nadine Gordimer. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990, 321 p. (Contains interviews with Nadine Gordimer from throughout her career.)
- Tuohy, Frank. "Breaths of Change." Times Literary Supplement, No. 4022 (25 April 1980): 462. (Presents the merits and faults of the stories in Gordimer's A Soldier's Embrace.)
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