Essays. Out of Kansas ; The best of young British novelists ; Angela Carter ; Beirut blues ; Arthur Miller at eighty ; In defense of the novel, yet again ; Notes on writing and the nation ; Influence ; Adapting Midnight's children ; Reservoir frogs ; Heavy threads ; In the voodoo lounge ; Rock music, a sleeve note ; U2 ; An alternative career ; On leavened bread ; On being photographed ; Crash ; The people's game ; Farming ostriches ; A commencement address ; "Imagine there's no heaven" ; "Damme, this is the Oriental scene for you!" ; India's fiftieth anniversary ; Gandhi, now ; The Taj Mahal ; The Baburnama ; A dream of glorious return
Messages from the plague years
Columns. December 1998: Three leaders ; January 1999: The millennium ; February 1999: Ten years of the Fatwa ; March 1999: Globalization ; April 1999: Rock music ; May 1999: Moron of the year ; June 1999: Kashmir ; July 1999: Northern Ireland ; August 1999: Kosovo ; September 1999: Darwin in Kansas ; October 1999: Edward Said ; November 1999: Pakistan ; December 1999: Islam and the west ; January 2000: Terror versus security ; February 2000: Jörg Haider ; March 2000: Amadou Diallo ; April 2000: Elian Gonzalez ; May 2000: J.M. Coetzee ; June 2000: Fiji ; July 2000: Sport ; August 2000: Two crashes ; September 2000: Senator Lieberman ; October 2000: The Human Rights Act ; November 2000: Going to electoral college ; December 2000: A grand coalition? ; January 2001: How the Grinch stole America ; February 2001: Sleaze is back ; March 2001: Crouching striker, hidden danger ; April 2001: It wasn't me ; May 2001: Abortion in India ; June 2001: Reality TV ; July 2001: The Release of the Bulger killers ; August 2001: Arundhati Roy ; September 2001: Telluride ; October 2001: The attacks on America ; November 2001: Not about Islam? ; February 2002: Anti-Americanism ; March 2002: God in Gujarat
