Short and piercing is how I would describe this piece on the recently departed writer Nadine Gordimer, whom Dalrymple describes as “the ne plus ultra of a certain type, ridiculous, dishonest but influential”.
Dalrymple at the Salisbury Review
The Skeptical Doctor
Dedicated to the work of Theodore Dalrymple
“If concision is next to Godliness, Uys is a prophet.”
He he.. Ironically the biblical prophets were probably as notorious for lack of concision as they were uncleanliness. But I could well be wrong about that.