| Book AD Archive 06.07.03 [89] |
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War Talk highlights the global rise of religious and racial violence. Writing desperately against the backdrop of the nuclear brinkmanship between India and Pakistan, the horrific massacres of Muslims in Gujarat, India, and the reckless war on Iraq, Roy condemns militarism and nationalism.
In a review of War Talk, Booklist says "this writer of conscience [is] turning herself into an electrifying political essayist....So fluent is her prose, so keen her understanding of global politics, and so resonant her objections to nuclear weapons, assaults against the environment, and the endless suffering of the poor tthat her essays are as uplifting as they are galvanizing."
Fully annotated versions of all Roy's most recent essays, including her acclaimed Lannan Foundation lecture from September 2002 and her January 2003 address to the World Social Forum in Brazil, are included in War Talk. Another collection of essays by Arundhati Roy, Power Politics, is also published by South End Press and is now in its second edition.
Text of her May 13 address at the Riverside Church in New York City is available at the website of the Center for Economic and Social Rights.
South End Press 7 Brookline Street #1 Cambridge, MA 02139-4146 617-547-4002 phone 617-547-1333 fax E-mail: southend@southendpress.org Web: http://www.southendpress.org
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