Short description
A collection of interviews conducted during the past twenty-five years covers such topics as Said's nomadic upbringing under colonial rule, his politically active childhood, and his perspectives of fellow critics. Reprint.
Review
A fascinating, oblique entry into the mind of one whose own writings . . . are a brilliant questioning chronicle of contemporary culture and values. --Nadine Gordimer
Edward Said [is] arguably the most consequential literary, cultural, and geopolitical critic of our time. --Richard Poirier
These fascinating and revealing interviews reinforce Edward Said's standing as one of our foremost public intellectuals. His is a democratic and cosmopolitan humanism . . . [that] enlarge[s] our understanding of the world and of ourselves. --Eric Foner