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An Anthology
by Nadine Gordimer (ed.) (2004)

Nadine Gordimer asked twenty writers she admired if they would — without any fee or royalty — submit a story for a fundraising anthology, with all proceeds going to Treatment Action Campaign in aid of HIV/AIDS. While the premise is risky — and might involuntarily bring to cynical mind the cringe-worthy fiasco of Live 8, rest assured that the collection offers a worthy representation (and cause) for a literary endeavour. Although it won’t stop any nitpicking, admittedly it’s not that often that we get a one-stop collection of wide-ranging writers in a popular press.

and Other Stories
by Nadine Gordimer (1991)

While the subject matters — the (moral and psychological tensions of) life in a racially-divided country — would normally be treated in a political manner, in this book Gordimer observes and writes stories with seemingly no committed specific political ideologies.