Living in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… even for those who would have liked to go on living in it. Historical coordinates don’t fit life any longer; new ones, … with contemporary black life, but their fiction was mainly historical, a desperate attempt to secure, in art forms of an … kit of emotive phrases, an unwritten index of subjects, a typology. The problem is that agitprop, not recognized under …