La fine delle illusioni

This is a large compilation of Roy’s nonfiction from 1999 (India's jobless growth and Hindu nationalism) to 2004 (“War on Terror” era)... Highlights : --“ Public Power in the Age of Empire ”: I’ll review this essay as I’ve reviewed the others in previous book releases. Briefly considered are the various Leggi tutto

A short book with a straightforward focus. Interesting to think of it as a dated piece, written in '99. Yet it is so relevant. I think of the parallels between the end of imagination from nuclear destruction and climate destruction.... "All I can say to every man, woman and sentient child here in In Leggi tutto

This compendium brings together five of Roy’s books. She's an electrifying polemicist. In these essays and speeches, she marshals her facts like an academic but writes like the novelist she is – fluent, clear and lively. Several of these essays are already classics. “The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky,” Leggi tutto

Each essay in this collection from Arundhati Roy from 1998-2004 carries more resonance with the United States presidential election of Donald Trump. The clarity of Roy's arguments against empire and fascism are incisive. Her arguments also inspire and challenge collective concepts of resistance. The Leggi tutto

"The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead. To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the sadd Leggi tutto

I've been meaning to read more non-US-based political thought, and boy, was this a great book to start with. (Thanks to my friend Char and her fantastic, Haymarket-stocked bookshelf for lending it!) I loved Roy's novel The God of Small Things , and her writing is just as lovely in essay form. She make Leggi tutto

“There is no terrorism like state terrorism.” I was basically completely ignorant to Indian politics prior to reading this and learned a great deal. Her observations on war, nuclear weapons, class are obviously applicable more broadly. “People rarely win wars; governments rarely lose them.”