Living in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… the new cannot be born; in this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.” In this interregnum, I … no compromises, as well as sacrifices, should be too great in the fight against it. The other is that a writer is … consternation when, early this year, Susan Sontag had the great courage and honesty publicly to accuse herself and …