Imaginary Homelands

Salman Rushdie's Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects - the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film; politicians: the Labor Party; religious fundamentalism; racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression.