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Articles, essays and other nonfiction pieces written by Tom Stoppard, chronologically listed. This is a work-in-progress. More information will be added as time allows. Note that only selected pieces of Stoppard's work in the late 1950s / early 1960s as a critic and columnist are included in this listing.
| 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s |
The 1950s
"Saint Nick — the facts." Western Daily Press, 24 Dec. 1957.
"To speak of two Hamlets." Western Daily Press, 5 June 1958.
"Act II...in which Tom Stoppard tries another profession." Western Daily Press and Bristol Mirror, 13 Sep. 1958.
"A Child's First Concert." Bristol Evening World, 22 Nov. 1958.
"A Hard-Hitting Thriller." [film review: "Blind Date"] Bristol Evening World, 29 Sep. 1959.
"They're having a 'terrible' time again, all the same I'm prepared to join the film star." Bristol Evening World, 3 Oct. 1959.
"But it's a pity it had to sag." Bristol Evening World, 20 Oct. 1959.
The 1960s
"'On the Beach' a superb piece of film-making." Bristol Evening World, 9 Mar. 1960.
"The Lovers." Bristol Evening World, 17 May 1960.
"The 'Before' and 'After' of a Course of Lifemanship." Bristol Evening World, 12 July 1960.
"The Articulate Peasant. A profile of John Steinbeck" Men Only and Lilliput 75, Nov. 1960: 72-75.
"Critic and His Credo." Western Daily Press & Times Mirror, 5 Jan. 1961.
"The Wrong Door." Western Daily Press, 18 Jan. 1961.
"New Hero is Spinning Money." [Film reviews: "Lucky Jim", "Room at the Top", "The Entertainer", "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"] Western Daily Press, 8 Feb. 1961.
[Article on Arnold Wesker.] Western Daily Press, 1 Mar 1961.
"A slave to a mural." [Review of "Spartacus".] (as by Tomik Straüssler) Western Daily Press, 1 Mar 1961.
[Review of "Ben Hur".] Western Daily Press, 14 Mar 1961.
[Review of "No Love for Johnny".] Western Daily Press, 5 Apr. 1961.
[Review of "La Dolce Vita".] Western Daily Press, 28 June 1961.
"After Wesker — is the horse so thirsty?" Western Daily Press, 30 Oct. 1961.
"Grandmother Courage." Western Daily Press, 13 Nov. 1961.
"Double focus — the plight of the sane lunatic." Western Daily Press, 13 Nov. 1961.
"Sugar at Tiffany's." Western Daily Press, 18 Dec. 1961.
"And now a preposterous New Year." Western Daily Press, 1 Jan. 1962.
"The Tense Present — Harold Pinter." Western Daily Press, 8 Jan. 1962.
"Who's Talking of Jerusalem?" Western Daily Press, 15 Jan. 1962.
"Death by Satire." Western Daily Press, 30 Apr. 1962.
"Vox Brittanicus, In Another Country." Village Voice, 3 May 1962.
"Lenny Goes Limey." Village Voice, 10 May 1962.
"Tom Stoppard on a dazzling new writer..." [review of Next Time I'll Sing to You by James Saunders] Scene 18, 9 Feb. 1963. 46-47.
"A Very Satirical Thing Happened to Me on the Way to the Theatre Tonight." Encore 10, 1963: 33-36.
"Just Impossible." [Review of The Impossible Years] Plays and Players, Jan. 1967: 28-29.
"A Case of Vice Triumphant." [Review of A Soldier's Fortune] Plays and Players, Mar. 1967: 16-19.
"The Definite Maybe." The Author 78, Spring 1967: 18-20. [reprinted in Author, Author. Ed. Richard Findlater. London: Faber and Faber, 1984]
"Something to Declare." Sunday Times, 25 Feb. 1968: 47
"Confessions of a Screenwriter." Today's Cinema, 3 Feb. 1969: 5
The 1970s
"I'm Not Keen on Experiments." New York Times, 8 Mar. 1970: Sec 2, p.17.
"Commentary on Ted Hughes' Orghast." Times Literary Supplement, 10 Oct. 1971: 1174
"Yes, We Have No Banana." Guardian, 10 Dec. 1971: 10
"Playwrights and Professors." Times Literary Supplement, 13 Oct. 1972: 1219
Review of A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, Volume I, A-G. Punch, 13 Dec. 1972: 893-894.
"Acting out the Oil Game." The Observer, 8 Sep. 1974: 24.
"The Miss UK Sales Promotion." The Observer, 15 Sep. 1974: 27.
"Welcome to the World: Presenting a New Arrival at Westminster Hospital." Evening News, 20 Sep. 1974: Sec. E, p.1.
"Disaster in Bangladesh." The Observer, 22 Sep. 1974: 27.
"Festival of Soap Opera." The Observer, 29 Sep. 1974: 28.
Introduction to Glyn Boyd Harte: A Spring Collection. London: Thumb Gallery, 1976.
"The Case for Peter Hall and the National: Three Big Guns of the Theatre — Tom Stoppard, Lord Goodman, Peter Stevens — Reply to Max Hastings," Evening Standard, 30 Sep. 1976: 24-25.
"Czech Human Rights." [Letter to the editor.] The Times, 7 Feb. 1977: 15.
"Dirty Linen in Prague." New York Times, 11 Feb. 1977: Sec.1, p.27.
"The Face at the Window." Sunday Times, 27 Feb. 1977: 33.
"But for the Middle Classes." [Review of Enemies of Society by Paul Johnson.] Times Literary Supplement, 3 June 1977: 677.
"Prague: The Story of the Chartists." New York Review of Books 24.4, 4 Aug. 1977: 11-15
"Journalists' Closed Shop." [Letter to the editor.] The Times, 11 Aug. 1977: 13.
"Human Rights in Prague." [Letter to the editor.] The Times, 17 Oct. 1977: 13.
"My Friends Fighting for Freedom." Daily Mail, 20 Oct. 1977: 6.
"Looking-Glass World." New Statesman, 28 Oct. 1977: 571-572.
"Foreword." Forwards!: A Phantom Captain Book. Ed. Neil Hornick. London: Unexpected Developments Ltd. in association with Aloes Books, 1977. 30.
"Nothing in Mind." London Magazine, Feb. 1978: 65-68.
"A I5-Year Wait for Nureyev's Mother." [Letter to the editor.] Daily Telegraph, 17 Mar. 1979: 20.
The 1980s
"Introduction." Vaclav Havel. The Memorandum. Trans. Vera Blackwell. New York: Grove Press, 1980; London: Eyre Methuen, 1981.
"Tom Stoppard on the KGB's Olympic Trials." Sunday Times, 6 Apr. 1980: 16.
"Borisov's Brief Freedom." [Letter to the editor.] Sunday Times, 15 June 1980: 12.
"Previous Non-convictions." [Letter to the editor.] The Times, 3 Nov. 1980: 13.
"Leftover from Travesties." Adam International Review, 42, nos. 431-33 (1980): 11-12.
"Stoppard Stops Off: The Playwright at Play in the Land of Free Time." Washington Post, 21 June 1981: Sec.F, p.1.
"Prague's Wall of Silence." [Open letter to the president of Czechoslovakia.] The Times, 18 Nov. 1981: 10. {reprinted as "Open Letter to President Husak," in They Shoot Writers, Don't They?. Ed. George Theiner. London: Faber and Faber, 1984: 57-59.
"Wildlife Observed: The Galapagos: Paradise and Purgatory." The Observer Magazine, 29 Nov. 1981: 38-50.
"Is It True What They Say About Shakespeare?" International Shakespeare Association Occasional Paper No. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982
"Paradise and Purgatory." Weekend Magazine, 20 Feb. 1982.
"Reflections on Ernest Hemingway." [Lecture at the John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, 21 May 1982, as part of a conference on "Ernest Hemingway: The Writer in Context."] Ernest Hemingway: The Writer in Context. Ed. James Nagel. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984: 19-27.
"Lech's Troubles with Chuck, Bruce and Bob." The Times, 31 May 1984: 14.
"Freedom, But Thousands Are Still Captive." Daily Mail, 12 Feb. 1986: 6.
"Arrests in Prague." [Letter to the editor.] The Times, 4 Oct. 1986: 9.
"Human Rights." [Letter to the editor.] The Times, 13 Feb. 1987: 17.
"Going to Bat for Britain." House & Garden, Nov. 1987: 22-30.
"The Text's the Thing." Daily Telegraph, 23 Apr. 1988.
"Introduction." Mark Bryant. Publish and Be Damned: Cartoons for Internation Pen. London: Heinemann Kingswood, 1988
"The Event and the Text." [Lecture at McMaster University, 24 Oct. 1988] Ta Panta 6. Hamilton Ont: McMaster University, 1988 [reprinted in Tom Stoppard in Conversation. Ed. Paul Delaney. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994: 199-211]
The 1990s
"Harold Pinter: the poet of no-man's-land." Sunday Times, 7 Oct. 1990: Sec.7, p.13.
"Connery Dispute." [Letter to the editor.] The Times, 13 Oct. 1990: 15.
"To Film or Not to Film." Premiere, Nov. 1990: 134.
"Going Back." Independent Magazine, 23 Mar. 1991: 25-30
"In Search of Childhood." Daily Mail, 4 May 1991: 17,19
"Let Iran Make Amends on Rushdie." [Edited transcription of speech given 14 Feb. 1992] The Observer, 16 Feb. 1992: 22.
"Stop the Onslaught." [Letter to the editor.] The Guardian, 22 May 1992: 24.
"Drama Reduction on Radio 3." [Letter to the editor.] The Times, 30 June 1992: 15.
"Late to Read, Early to Rise." The Times, 12 Sep. 1992: 17
"In front of the Curtain." Not in the Script: Bristol Old Vic, Anecdotes on stage and off. Bristol: Redcliffe Press, 1992
"Playing With Science." Engineering and Science LVIII (1994): 3-13
"Spy Stuff as a Metaphor for the World of Physics." New York Times, 27 Nov. 1994: 25
"Stalking Raymond Chandler's Spirit." New York Times, 19 July 1998: 2
"On Turning Out to Be Jewish." Talk, Sep. 1999: 190+ [reprinted as "Another Country." Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 10 Oct. 1999: 14-21]
"Pragmatic Theater." New York Review of Books, 23 Sep. 1999: 8,10 [reprinted in Doing It: Five Performing Arts. Ed. Robert B. Silvers. New York: New York Review of Books Press, 2001]
The 2000s
"On The Invention of Love: Another Exchange." New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2000: 64-65
"Making It." Times Literary Supplement, 15 June 2001: 15
"The Forgotten Revolutionary." Observer, 2 June 2002
"Introduction." The Duchess of Devonshire. Counting My Chickens...and Other Home Thoughts. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, Oct. 2002
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