Living in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… belonging to the outriders on whose actions the newspapers report and the secret police keep watch, as we prance back … discounted and torn up by that culture. In the Fifties, urban blacks—Es’kia Mphahlele, Lewis Nkosi, Can Themba, Bloke … Abrahams—began to write in English only, and about the urban industrialized experience in which black and white …