"Undercurrents in translation," Investigacion y traduccion: una mirada al presente en la labor investidora y en ejercicio de la profesion de la liceniatura Traduccion e Interpretacion, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Malaga, Spain, 2006.

“Travel Alone,” New York Times, Travel, New York, NY, 2002.

* “When a Trip Turns Serious,” New York Times, Travel, New York, NY, 2002.

* “Mulberries,” Agni, Boston, MA 2002.
Translated into Spanish by Javier Gallego Juan, “Moreras,” El Nido del Escorpion, Madrid, 2003.
read online in Spanish at El Nido del Escorpion
Translated into Swedish by Janco Karlsson, “Mulbär”, Ny Tid, 19 September 2007.
read online in Swedish at Ny Tid

“Garden Envy,” Old Farmer’s Almanac, Dublin, NH, 2000.

“A World of Gardens in Cape Town,” New York Times, Travel, New York, NY, 2000.
International Herald Tribune, Paris, 2000

“Ferries to Everywhere in Sydney’s Waters,” New York Times, New York, N.Y,. 1999.

“Savoring Two Masters of Fiction: Saramago and Morante,” Boston Globe, Boston, . MA, 1999.

“Layover or Mini-Vacation,” New York Times, New York, NY, 1998. Syndicated 1999.

* “Canary Islands,” Atlantic Monthly, Boston, MA, 1997.
Atlantic Unbound, 1999.

“Villena, the Web and the World,” Clarin, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1997.

“Labyrinthine Ways,” The Bulletin, Brussels, Belgium, 1995.

“Getting that Butterfly,” Leadership, Cape Town, South Africa, 1994.

“Quiet Revolution,” Boston Globe Magazine, Boston, MA, 1994.

“Barriers of Reticence and Reserve," THE FRAME HOLDS, Borgo Press, San Bernardino, CA, 1992.

“Would Superwoman Fly? Some Notes," THE FRAME HOLDS, Borgo Press, San Bernardino, CA, 1992.

"Roads to Discovery," Boston Review, Boston, MA, 1990.

"A Matter of State," Boston Review, Boston, MA, 1989.
read online at The Boston Review

"The World of Mary Cunningham," Women's Review of Books, Wellesley, MA, 1984.

"Some Notes on a Poem by Sidney Clouts," ENGLISH IN AFRICA SYDNEY CLOUTS MEMORIAL ISSUE, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1984.

Review of Herman Charles Bosman, Jacarandah in the Night, 1981.
Reprinted in HERMAN CHARLES BOSMAN, ed. Stephen Gray, McGraw Hill, 1986.

"Exploring Technology: Traveler's Tales," Women's Review of Books, Wellesley, MA, 1983.

"Alan Paton: Bringing a Sense of the Sacred," World Literature Today, special issue, TRANSCENDING PAROCHIAL NATIONAL LITERATURES, Norman, OK, 1983.

"Hand in Glove," Pacific Quarterly, Hamilton, New Zealand, 1981.

“Homo sapiens, femina incognita: self-censorship in women fiction writers,” Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Wellesley, MA, 1981.

"Return to South Africa," Present Tense, New York, NY, 1977.
Reprinted in JEWISH PROFILES: THE BEST OF PRESENT TENSE, Jason Aronson, NY, 1989.

"Shakespeare as a Critic of Language," with Heather Boyd, English Studies in Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1968.

"The Theme of Personal Integrity in Othello," Theoria, Pietermariztburg, South Africa, 1959.

* “A New Set of Hooligans to Fear,”Anniston Star, AL, 2004.

“A Clergy Ill Prepared to Deal With Scandal,” New York Times, NY, 2002.

* “The America I Love,” Boston Globe, Boston, MA, 2001.

“Century of Darkness,” Boston Globe, Boston, MA, 1999.

“From South Africa to the Balkans,” Boston Globe, Boston, MA, 1999.

“No Space like Shared Space,” New York Times, NY, NY, 1996. Reprinted 1997.

"Substance behind PR?" Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA; reprinted International Herald Tribune, 1989.

"A Tragic Verdict," San Jose Mercury-News, CA; Los Angeles Daily Journal, . CA; Berkeley Post, CA; Sacramento Bee, CA; Colorado Daily, CO; Arizona Daily Star, AZ; Mountain Eagle, Pacific News Service, 1988.

"Forbidden Voices," Valley Advocate, Hadley, MA, 1988.

"Ramakhula's Door," Christian Science Monitor, Boston, MA, 1988.