Books:

• Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard University Press, 2011)

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• Dreambirds. The Natural History of a Fantasy (USA: Picador, 2000; UK: Doubleday/Anchor)

  The New York Times Book Review selected Dreambirds as a Notable Book of the Year and Esquire named it as one of the ten best books of the year. Dreambirds was also serialized as Book of the Week on BBC Radio Four.

  Dreambirds received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly, Choice, and Library Journal.

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• Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond (Routledge, 1994)

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• London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (Oxford University Press, 1992)

  London Calling was selected by Choice as one of the best academic books of the year.

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Monographs:

"Nadine Gordimer" (Scribners, 1991) (pdf)

Selected Articles:

• "Neoliberalism, Genre and the Tragedy of the Commons" (forthcoming PMLA, March 2012, special issue on sustainability)

• "Ramachandra Guha and Empty-belly Environmentalism," in Libby Robin, Sverker Sorlin and Paul Warde, eds., Environmental Futures (forthcoming, Yale University Press, 2012)

• "Slow Violence Revisited: a Response to Mary Louise Pratt and Stephanie LeMenager" (forthcoming, Interventions, 2012)

• "Non-fiction Booms: a Transnational, North-South Perspective" (forthcoming, Safundi, special issue on nonfiction)

• "Emergencies of the Long Term" in Ziad Elmarsafy and Anna Bernard, eds., What Postcolonialism Doesn't Say (forthcoming 2012)

• "Race, Class, and the Intertidal Zone," in Oxford Book of Ecocriticism, ed. Greg Garrard (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2012)

• "Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor: an Interview with Rob Nixon," Social Text, August 31, 2011

• "Slow Violence and Environmental Story Telling" (June 13, 2011, Nieman Storyboard at Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University)

• "Postcolonial Ecocriticism and the Environmentalism of the Poor," Chronicle of Higher Education, June 26, 2011, B1-3

• "Unimagined Communities: Developmental Refugees, Megadams, and Monumental Modernity" New Formations 69, 2010, special issue on Imperial Ecologies, 62-80 (pdf)

• "Literature for Real," Chronicle of Higher Education, March 12, 2010

• "Stranger in the Eco-Village: Race, Tourism, and Environmental Time," in Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George Handley, eds., Postcolonial Ecologies (Oxford University Press, 2010), 159-81

• "Neoliberalism and the Environmental Picaresque," Modern Fiction Studies 55.3, Fall 2009, 443-67 (pdf)

• "Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor," Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 13.2-14.1, 2006-2007, 14-37 (special issue on environmentalism and postcolonial literatures) (pdf). Extended version reprinted in Byron Caminero-Santangelo and Mark Myers (eds), Environment at the Margins (Ohio University Press, 2011)

• "Of Land Mines and Cluster Bombs," Cultural Critique 68, 2007, 160-74 (pdf)

• "In the Dark in the Park, With the Wild Things," New York Times, March 18, 2007

• "Not-So-Silent Spring," Slate, April 3, 2006

• "Environmentalism and Postcolonialism," in Ania Loomba and Suvir Kaul, eds., Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Duke University Press, 2005), 233-51. Reprinted in Ato Quayson and Tejumola Olaniyan, eds., African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory (Blackwell, 2007)

• "In the California Desert, Made in the Shade," New York Times, March 27, 2005

• "Our Tools of War, Turned Blindly Against Ourselves," Chronicle of Higher Education, February 18, 2005, B7-10; reprinted in Chronicle of Higher Education, December 29, 2005 (pdf)

• "In South Africa, a Rugged Gallery for Ancient Art Off the Beaten Path" New York Times, February 6, 2005; reprinted, in Let's Go; reprinted 2009, "Africa Online"

• "An Interview with Pat Barker," Contemporary Literature, 45.1, Fall 2004, 1-21 (pdf)

• "Searching for a Leopard, Finding More," New York Times, February 8, 2004

• "Edward Said," Politics and Culture, 1.1, 2004

• "J. M. Coetzee in an Age of Terror," Slate, November 6, 2003

• "Travelers in Residence," in Louis Mendoza and Subramanian Shankar, (ed.), Crossing into America: The New Literatures of Immigration (New Press 2003), 68-71

• "Mimics and Parasites," in Emran Qereshi and Michael Sells (ed.), The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy (Columbia University Press, 2003), 152-169

• "Travels with an Accent," New York Times, June 8, 2003; reprinted in Way to Go (2003); reprinted in Communique, Fall 2003. Notable essay in Pico Iyer (ed.), Best American Travel Essays of 2004

• "Memory and Mastery," a catalog essay for an exhibition of Sarah McEneaney's work at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (2003). Reprinted in Sarah McEneaney (University of Pennsylvania, 2004)

• "Radical Trust on the Road," New York Times, August 18, 2002; reprinted in Way to Go (2002). Notable essay in Ian Frazier (ed.), Best Travel Writing of 2003

• "Around the Water Hole," New York Times, August 4, 2002

• "The Airplane is His Castle," New York Times, May 5, 2002; reprinted in Way To Go (2002)

• "A Land the Apaches Loved," New York Times, March 10, 2002

• "The Hidden Lives of Oil," Chronicle of Higher Education, 48.30, April 5, 2002, B7-9 (pdf)

• "Memory and Migration: An Interview with Rob Nixon" in Contemporary Literature, Fall 2002, 423-440 (pdf). To be reprinted in Sarah Nuttall and Cheryl Ann Michael (eds.), South African Writers on South African Writing (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). Also reprinted in Stephan Meyer (ed.), Selves in Question: Interviews on South African Auto/biography (Univ. of Hawaii Press, 2006)

• "A Dangerous Appetite for Oil," New York Times Op-ed Page, October 29, 2001; reprinted Solaraccess.com

• "South Africans Only: The Rise of the Makwerekwere," Atlantic Monthly, 288.4, November 2001, 28-32 (pdf)

• "Forest, Sea, and Tranquility," New York Times, August 26, 2001

• "Email--the End of a Romance," Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept 29, 2000, B20; (pdf) reprinted in The Little, Brown Reader, 9th edition, ed. Stubbs, Barnet, and Cain (2001); reprinted in Writing for Proficiency Volume Three (Sacramento: Cal State, 2007).

• "Whistling for the Undead," Ariel 31.1 & 2, January-April 2000, 375-381

• "Navigating Through the Driftless," New York Times, September 10, 2000

• "As American as Cricket" Atlantic Monthly, 286.1, July 2000, 79-81; reprinted in Span, April 2001 (pdf)

• "My Father, My Country, Ostriches, and Me," Chronicle of Higher Education, 46.30, March 31, 2000, B4-6 (pdf); reprinted in Annotations, 2, 1, May 2001

• "Dreaming of Flight," Fair Lady, August 1999 (pdf)

• "Apollo 11, Apartheid, and TV," Atlantic Monthly, 284, 1, July 1999, 12-14. Reprinted in Sylvia Engdahl, ed., Perspectives on Modern World History: The Apollo 11 Moon Landing (Gale, 2011)

• "Ornithological Notes," Independent (London) May 17, 1999 (pdf)

• "A Winter Have for Birds and Frontier Historians," New York Times, November 1, 1998

• "The Feather Palace," Transition, 77, 1998, 70-85 (pdf)

• "Aftermaths," Transition, 72, 1996, 64-78 (pdf)

• "Pipedreams: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Environmental Justice, and Micro-Minority Rights" London Review of Books, 18, 7, April 4th, 1996. Extended and reprinted in Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, 1, 1, 1996 and in Craig McLuckie (ed.), Ken Saro-Wiwa (Riener, 2000), 109-126 (pdf)

• "A World Turned Upside Down," Village Voice, April 1996 (pdf)

• "The Oil Weapon," The New York Times, 17 November, 1995 (pdf)

• "Rural Transnationalism: Bessie Head's Southern Spaces," in Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia, ed. Kate Darien-Smith, Elizabeth Gunner, and Sarah Nuttall (London: Routledge, 1995). Reprinted in Late Imperial Culture, E. Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinker, eds. (New York: Verso, 1995), 93-115

• "Refugees and Homecomings," in Travellers' Tales, ed. George Robertson et al. (London: Routledge, 1994), 114-128

• "White Farms, Black Claims," New York Times, May 31, 1994 (pdf)

• "Of Balkans and Bantustans," Transition, 60, 1993, 4-26 (pdf), reprinted in McClintock, Mufti, and Shohat eds., Dangerous Liaisons: Post-Colonialism, Gender and Nation (Minnesota, 1996)

• "The Devil in the Black Box: Ethnic Nationalism, Cultural Imperialism, and the Outlawing of Television under Apartheid," in Shula Marks, ed., The Societies of Southern Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 19, (University of London, 1993), 120-137

• "Border Country: Bessie Head's Frontline States," Social Text, Summer 1993, 82-101 (pdf); reprinted in Elizabeth Gunner and Susheila Nasta, eds., Commonwealth Literature (University of London, 1993)

• "Apartheid on the Run -- the South African Sports Boycott," Transition 58, 1992, 68-88 (pdf)

• "The Collapse of the Communist-Anticommunist Condominium: the Repercussions for South Africa," Social Text, Summer 1992, 235-251 (pdf)

• "An Everybody Claim Dem Democratic: Notes on the "New" South Africa," Transition, 54, 1991, 20-35 (pdf)

• "Cry White Season: Apartheid, Liberalism, and the American Screen," South Atlantic Quarterly, Summer 1991, 42-61. Reprinted in The Discourse of Apartheid, ed. David Goldberg (University of Minnesota Press, 1993)

• "Preparations for Travel: The Naipaul Brothers' Conradian Atavism," Research in African Literatures, 22, Summer 1991, 33-50 (pdf)

• "V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin," Transition, 52, 1991, 100-113 (pdf)

• "Mandela, the Media, and Messianism," Transition, 51, 1991, 42-55 (pdf)

• "An Exchange: Culture and Politics in South Africa," in Writers from South Africa: Culture, Politics and Literary Theory and Activity in South Africa Today, Reginald Gibbons, ed. (TriQuarterly Books, 1989)

• "Fading to Black: 'South Africa Now,'" Village Voice, July 12, 1988 (written collaboratively with Anne McClintock)

• "V. S. Naipaul and the License of Exile," South Atlantic Quarterly, 87, no. 1, Winter 1988, 1-37

• "Denis Brutus," World Authors: 1980-85, ed. Vineta Colby, 120-125

• "Alex La Guma," World Authors: 1980-85, ed. Vineta Colby, 502-504

• "Caribbean and African Appropriations of The Tempest," Critical Inquiry, 13, 3, Spring 1987, 557-578 (pdf). Reprinted in Robert von Hallberg (ed.), Poetry and Politics (University of Chicago Press, 1988); in William Vesterman (ed.), An Introduction to the Critical Reading of Literature (Holt, Rineholt and Winston, 1991); in David Johnson (ed.), A Shakespeare Reader: Sources and Criticism (Macmillan/St. Martins Press, 2000); in Shakespeare Criticism (Gale, 2000); in Richardson and Tobin (eds.), New Riverside Editions--The Tempest (Houghton Mifflin, 2005); in Patrick M. Murphy (ed.), The Tempest: Critical Essays (Routledge, 2001); in Evan's Shakespeare: The Tempest (Cengage, 2011)

• "The Camera Eye," The Nation, May 2, 1987 (pdf)

• "No Names Apart: the Separation of Word and History in Derrida's 'Le Dernier Mot du Racism,'" in Critical Inquiry, 13, 1, Fall 1986, 140-154 (written collaboratively with Anne McClintock) (pdf). Reprinted in Henry Louis Gates (ed.), 'Race,' Writing, and Difference (University of Chicago Press, 1986); and in Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan (ed.), Literary Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2004)

• "Out of Africa," Grand Street, 5,4, Summer 1986, 216-227 (pdf). Reprinted in Clinton Street Quarterly, 8, no. 2, 1986

• "Township Theater," The Nation, Nov. 22, 1986 (pdf)

• "The Wrong Horse," The Nation, Dec. 7, 1985 (pdf)

• For a more complete list of published articles, see Professor Nixon's CV.

Selected Reviews:

• Adam Schwartzman, Eddie Signwriter, New York Times Book Review, May 2, 2010

• Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, New York Times Book Review, March 25, 2007

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun, New York Times Book Review, October 1, 2006

• Troy Blacklaws, Karoo Boy, New York Times Book Review, November 20, 2005

• Bobbie Ann Mason, An Atomic Romance, New York Times Book Review, September 11, 2005

• Mia Couto, The Last Flight of the Flamingo, New York Times Book Review, June 10, 2005

• Peter Beard, Zara's Tales, New York Times Book Review, December 26, 2004

• Marlene van Niekerk, Triomf, New York Times Book Review, March 14, 2004

• Aidan Hartley, The Zanzibar Chest, New York Times Book Review, Aug 21, 2003

• Blake Morrison, Things My Mother Never Told Me, New York Times Book Review, May 4, 2003

• Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Rural Life, New York Times Book Review, Dec 1, 2002

• Anne Packer, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, New York Times Book Review, May 12, 2002

• Peter Matthiessen, The Birds of Heaven: Travels With Cranes, New York Times Book Review, December 22, 2001

• Ken Wiwa, In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy, New York Times Book Review, October 21, 2001

• Henk Van Woerde, The Assassin, New York Times Book Review, June 24, 2001

• Robert Sapolsky, A Primate's Memoir, New York Times Book Review, April 12, 2001

• Nega Mezlekia, Notes from the Hyena's Belly, New York Times Book Review, January 20, 2001

• Julia Leigh, The Hunter, New York Times Book Review, December 17, 2000

• Robert Drewe, The Shark Net, New York Times Book Review, September 10, 2000

• Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, The New Yorker, September 11, 1995 (pdf)

• "TriQuarterly 69, From South Africa," Spring/Summer 1987, The Nation, October 24, 1987 (pdf)

• Lewis Nkosi, Mating Birds, July 29, 1987. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 45, ed. Daniel Marowski and Roger Matuz (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1987) and in Black Literature Criticism, ed. James Draper (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1991)

• Franco Moretti, Signs Taken For Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms, SubStance, 49, 1986 (pdf)

• Steven Mailloux, Interpretive Conventions, SubStance, 44/45, 1985 (pdf)

• William Riggan, Picaros, Madmen, Naifs and Clowns, SubStance, 36, 1983 (pdf)

• For a more complete list of published reviews, see Professor Nixon's CV.