Publisher's Synopsis
This latest volume contains contributions from writers from four continents, all trying to make sense of how the world has changed since September 11, 2001, and each in their own way persuading us of the role writers have to play in rebuilding the world. In ?A letter to my granddaughter, on the eve of another war?, Russell Banks implores us to keep faith with the spirit of America, even as we deplore the actions of its government, while Edward S. Herman, co-author (with Noam Chomsky) of Manufacturing Consent, delivers a blistering attack on U.S. foreign policy. Elsewhere, Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka gives us his account of a trip to Palestine to visit the poet Mahmoud Darwish, who had been trapped in Ramallah throughout the Israeli blockade. Darwish himself sums up the collection with his address: ?We suffer from an incurable malady: hope.?
