• Author’s Note
• Editor’s Introduction

Beckett

• Interview
• The Comedy of Point of View in Beckett’s Murphy (1970)
• The Manuscript Revisions of Beckett’s Watt (1972)
• Samuel Beckett and the Temptations of Style (1973)
• Remembering Texas (1984)

The Poetics of Reciprocity

• Interview
Achterberg’s “Ballade van de gasfitter”: The Mystery of I and You (1977)
• The First Sentence of Yvonne Burgess’ The Strike (1976)
• A Note on Writing (1984)
• Jerusalem Prize Acceptance Speech (1987)

Popular Culture

• Interview
• Captain America in American Mythology (1976)
• The Burden of Consciousness in Africa (1977)
• Four Notes on Rugby (1978)
• Triangular Structures of Desire in Advertising (1980)

Syntax

• Interview
• The Rhetoric of the Passive in English (1980)
• The Agentless Sentence as Rhetorical Device (1980)
• Isaac Newton and the Ideal of a Transparent Scientific Language (1982)

Kafka

• Interview
• Time, Tense, and Aspect in Kafka’s “The Burrow” (1981)
• Robert Musil’s Stories of Women (1986)

Autobiography and Confession

• Interview
• Confession and Double Thoughts: Tolstoy, Rousseau, Dostoevsky (1985)

Obscenity and Censorship

• Interview
• The Taint of the Pornographic: Defending (against) Lady Chatterley (1988)
• Censorship in South Africa (1990)

South African Writers

• Interview
• Man’s Fate in the Novels of Alex La Guma (1974)
• Into the Dark Chamber: The Writer and the South African State (1986)
• Athol Fugard, Notebooks, 1960—1977 (1984)
• Breyten Breytenbach, True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist and Mouroir (1985)
• Nadine Gordimer, The Essential Gesture (1989)

Retrospect

• Interview

• Notes
• Sources and Credits
• Index