Nadine Gordimer (born 1923) was the Nobel Prize-winning author of short stories and novels reflecting the disintegration of South African society. While her early works were in the tradition of liberal South African whites opposed to apartheid, her later...

A Nobel Prize winner, an outspoken critic of apartheid, a frequently controversial public figure in her native South Africa, and one of the leading novelists of her age, Nadine Gordimer has been writing since her teens. Her first short story, written for...

"Nadine Gordimer has become, in the whole solid body of her work, the literary voice and conscience of her society," declared Maxwell Geismar in Saturday Review. In numerous novels, short stories, and essays, she has written of her South African homeland...

FOOTNOTES The nine members of Noche Flamenco (New Victory Theater, through June 16) and artistic director Martin Santangelo strip flamenco to its essence, bringing a bare stage to life with the strumming of a guitar, the rasp of a shoe, the sudden burst...

Why I Brought a Bunch of Seattle Artists to Wichita, and What Happened When We Got Here by Travis Nichols "I THINK YOU brought the rain with you!" my flying companion, a pink-skinned man with a white crew cut and a navy blazer,...