Andre Aciman, Editor, Edward W. Said, Author, Charles Simic, Author New Press $18.95 (135p) ISBN 978-1-56584-504-6
The five distinguished contributors to this volume agree that a homeland tends to be a nostalgic, imaginary place, not a real one, and that the home once lost can never be recovered. They also share a penchant for classifying the minute differences...
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Daniel Barenboim, Author, Edward W. Said, Author, Ara Guzelimian, Editor , edited and with a preface by Ara Guzelimian. Pantheon $24 (208p) ISBN 978-0-375-42106-8
Renowned pianist and conductor Barenboim, currently general music director of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, comes from a Russian Jewish family transplanted to Argentina and Israel. Said (Orientalism), Columbia professor of English and comparative...
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Edward W. Said, Author . Columbia Univ. $29.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-231-13936-6
Though best known for his political writings (Orientalism
), Said was also, from 1986 until his death in 2003, the music critic for the Nation
, and this collection draws together reviews from that publication and other magazines. Said had very firm
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Edward W. Said, Author Vintage Books USA $15.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-73988-3
Said's controversial but instructive Palestinian interpretation of the Mideast conflict now includes a new introduction and epilogue commenting on the intifada , Gulf war and Madrid peace talks. (Apr.)
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Edward W. Said, Author Vintage Books USA $16.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-679-75054-3
In 37 essays, Columbia professor and long-time Palestinian National Council advisor Said offers 37 essays on the political destiny of Palestine; Western stereotypes of Islam; U.S. Middle East policy; and Palestinian-Israeli relations. (June)
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Edward W. Said, Author Vintage Books USA $13 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-76725-1
This is not an easy book. It's not that Said's ideas are difficult to grasp, but rather, as Said says in his introduction, ``this is the first of my books to have been written from start to finish with an Arab audience in mind.'' Perhaps even more...
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Edward W. Said, Author Pantheon Books $27.5 (368p) ISBN 978-0-375-40930-1
In his 18th book, Palestinian writer and Columbia University literary scholar Said (author of the highly praised memoir Out of Place) once again brings acute insight to a controversial subject. In 50 essays (most of which were originally published...
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Edward W. Said, Author Harvard University Press $36.95 (617p) ISBN 978-0-674-00302-6
Thanks to the British schools that the eminent Columbia University literary and cultural critic Said attended as a boy in Cairo, he learned more about 18th-century British property law than he did about the Islamic equivalent in his own part of the...
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Edward W. Said, Author Columbia University Press $24.95 (154p) ISBN 978-0-231-12264-1
Devoted equally to the causes of Palestinian freedom and literary criticism, Said's life was a testament to how conflicted the relationship between scholarly pursuits and immediate reality can be. This book, prepared just before his death, collects...
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Edward W. Said, Author Pantheon Books $27.5 (450p) ISBN 978-0-679-43057-5
In this forceful, challenging collection of 37 political essays from the past 25 years, Said, University Professor at Columbia, emphasizes that the Palestinians are a people with their own history, society and right to self-determination. He is...
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Edward W. Said, Author Knopf Publishing Group $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-394-58739-4
An influential literary critic (Culture and Imperialism, etc.), writes movingly and honestly about his life of dislocation and exile. Prompted by a diagnosis of leukemia in 1991, Said's new book is infused with a desire to document not only a life,...
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Edward W. Said, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (380p) ISBN 978-0-394-58738-7
Said's ( Orientalism ) main theme in this dense, academic study is how literature has reflected and bolstered British, French and U.S. imperialisms, which use self-justifying rhetoric to condone the West's dominance and exploitation of non-Western...
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Edward W. Said, Author, Mariam Said, Foreword by, Michael Wood, Introduction by , foreword by Mariam C. Said, intro. by Michael Wood. Pantheon $25 (176p) ISBN 978-0-375-42105-1
This is the book culture critic Said was completing when he died in 2003. The critical survey had its genesis in a popular course Said taught at Columbia University, "Late Works/Late Style," examining "artists... whose work expresses...
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Edward W. Said, Author, Christopher Bollas, Introduction by, Jacqueline Rose, Afterword by Verso $19 (84p) ISBN 978-1-85984-500-4
This little book is really an essay that Said (Culture and Imperialism; etc.) delivered under the auspices of the Freud Museum in London, stretched out with Christopher Bollas's unrevised introduction (""...I am pleased to welcome all of you to this
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Edward W. Said, Author, Tony Judt, Foreword by, Wadie E. Said, Afterword by . Pantheon $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-42287-4
In the three years before he died of leukemia in September 2003, noted critic and commentator Said (Culture and Imperialism
, etc.) observed with sputtering rage some of the grimmest moments in the tragic history of the Middle East conflict. The...
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