‘Rembrandt self-portrait’: previously unpublished.
‘Self-portrait 1914–1918’: previously unpublished.
‘The white bird’: previously unpublished.
‘The storyteller’: first published in New Society, 30 March 1978.
‘On the edge of a foreign city’: first published in The Look of Things, London, Penguin, 1972.
‘The eaters and the eaten’: first published in the Guardian, 3 January 1976.
‘Dürer: a portrait of the artist’: first published in Realities, 1971.
‘One night in Strasbourg’: first published in The Nation, 21 December 1974.
‘On the banks of the Sava’: first published in New Society, 1 June 1972.
Four ‘postcard poems’: first published in the New Statesman, 21 December 1979.
‘On the Bosphorus’: first published in New Society, 1 February 1979.
‘Manhattan’: first published in New Society, 6 February 1975.
‘The theatre of indifference’: first published in New Society, 26 June 1975.
‘The city of Sodom’: first published in Realities, January 1972.
‘The deluge’: first published in Realities, June 1972.
‘Kerchief’: previously unpublished.
‘Goya: the Maja, dressed and undressed’: first published in The Moment of Cubism, London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1969; New York, Pantheon, 1969.
‘Bonnard’: first published in The Moment of Cubism, op. cit.
‘Modigliani’s alphabet of love’: first published in Village Voice, May/June 1981.
‘The Hals mystery’: first published in New Society, 20 December 1979.
‘In a Moscow cemetery’: first published in New Society, 22 December 1983.
‘Ernst Fischer: a philosopher and death’: first published as an introduction to his autobiography An Opposing Man, London, Allen Lane, 1974; New York, Liveright, 1974.
‘François, Georges and Amélie: a requiem in three parts’: first published in New Society, 12 June 1980.
‘Drawn to that moment’: first published in New Society, 8 July 1976.
‘The unsaid’: previously unpublished.
‘On a Degas bronze of a dancer’: first published in Permanent Red, London, Methuen, 1960.
‘The moment of Cubism’: first published in The Moment of Cubism, op. cit.
‘The eyes of Claude Monet’: first published in New Society, 17 April 1980.
‘The work of art’: first published in New Society, 28 September 1978.
‘Painting and time’: first published in New Society, 27 September 1979.
‘The place of painting’ first published in New Society, 7 October 1982.
‘On visibility’: first published in The Structurist, 17/18, 1977–78.
‘Redder every day’: previously unpublished.
‘Mayakovsky: his language and his death’: first published in 7 Days, 15 March 1972.
‘The secretary of Death’: first published in New Society, 2 September 1982.
‘The hour of poetry’: first published in New Society, 20 May 1982.
‘The screen and The Spike: first published in New Society, 21 May 1981.
‘Sicilian lives’: first published as a foreword to Danilo Dolci, Sicilian Lives, trans. J. Vitiello, London, Writers & Readers, 1981; New York, Pantheon, 1982.
‘Leopardi’: first published in New Society, 2 June 1983.
‘The production of the world’: first published in New Society, 5 August 1982.
‘Mother tongue’: previously unpublished.
‘Hiroshima’: first published in New Society, 6 August 1981.
‘Of all the colours’: previously unpublished.
Extracts from ‘The place of painting’, ‘Painting and time’, ‘The production of the word’ and ‘The hour of poetry’ were incorporated in the text of And our faces, my heart, brief as photos, Writer & Readers, London and New York, 1984.