City Lovers

Nadine Gordimer: City Lovers and other stories

Tessa Hadley reads “City Lovers,” a story by the South African writer and 1991 Nobel Prize, winner Nadine Gordimer. The story, which was published in The New Yorker in 1975, focusses on a love affair between a white man and a “colored” woman in Apartheid South Africa. It’s deeply political in its details—the man is … Continue reading →