Edward Said

Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.

In the LRB Archive:

• Thoughts on Late Style: A Lecture · 5 August 2004

• A Road Map to Where?: The Future of the Middle East · 19 June 2003

• The Academy of Lagado: The US Administration’s misguided war · 17 April 2003

• Always on Top: From Birmingham to Jamaica · 20 March 2003

  • Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-67 by Catherine Hall

• ‘We’ know who ‘we’ are: Palestine, Iraq and ‘Us’ · 17 October 2002

• Is Israel more secure now?: Israel’s Dead End · 3 January 2002

• My Guru: Elegy for Ibrahim Abu-Lughod · 13 December 2001

• Cosmic Ambition: J.S. Bach · 19 July 2001

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff

• Palestinians under Siege: putting Palestine on the map · 14 December 2000

• Diary describes an encounter with J-P Sartre · 1 June 2000

• In Memory of Tahia on Tahia Carioca · 28 October 1999

• Hey, Mister, you want dirty book? on the CIA · 30 September 1999

  • Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders

• John McEnroe plus Anyone on tennis · 1 July 1999

  • The Right Set: The Faber Book of Tennis edited by Caryl Phillips

• On Writing a Memoir: Living by the Clock · 29 April 1999

• Unoccupied Territory in Palestine · 7 January 1999

• Between Worlds: a memoir · 7 May 1998

• On ‘Fidelio’ · 30 October 1997

• In the Chair · 17 July 1997

  • Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and the Tragedy of Genius by Peter Ostwald
  • When the Music Stops: Managers, Maestros and the Corporate Murder of Classical Music by Norman Lebrecht

• Lost between War and Peace · 5 September 1996

• Bach’s Genius, Schumann’s Eccentricity, Chopin’s Ruthlessness, Rosen’s Gift · 21 September 1995

  • The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen

• Contra Mundum · 9 March 1995

  • Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm

• Who is worse? · 20 October 1994

• At Miss Whitehead’s · 7 July 1994

  • The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960-1972 by Edmund Wilson, edited by Lewis Dabney

• Diary · 7 April 1994

• The Morning After · 21 October 1993

• The Importance of Being Unfaithful to Wagner · 11 February 1993

  • Wagner in Performance edited by Barry Millington and Stewart Spencer
  • Wagner: Race and Revolution by Paul Lawrence Rose
  • Wagner Handbook edited by Ulrich Müller and Peter Wapnewski, translated by John Deathridge
  • Richard Wagner’s Visit to Rossini and An Evening at Rossini’s in Beau-Séjour by Edmond Michotte, translated by Herbert Weinstock

• Paulin’s People · 9 April 1992

  • Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State by Tom Paulin

• On board the ‘Fiona’ · 19 December 1991

  • In Search of Conrad by Gavin Young

• Edward Said, an American and an Arab, writes on the eve of the Iraqi-Soviet peace talks · 7 March 1991

• Homage to a Belly-Dancer · 13 September 1990

• Goodbye to Mahfouz · 8 December 1988

• Alexander the Brilliant · 18 February 1988

  • Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era by Alexander Cockburn

• Miami Twice · 10 December 1987

  • Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists and Refugees in the New America by David Rieff
  • Miami by Joan Didion

• Irangate · 7 May 1987

  • The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie
  • Turning the Tide: US Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace by Noam Chomsky

• America and Libya · 8 May 1986

• How not to get gored · 21 November 1985

  • The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway

• Edward Said reflects on the fall of Beirut · 4 July 1985

• Permission to narrate · 16 February 1984

  • Israel in Lebanon: The Report of the International Commission by Sean MacBride
  • Sabra et Chatila: Enquête sur un Massacre by Amnon Kapeliouk
  • Final Conflict: The War in the Lebanon by John Bulloch
  • Lebanon: The Fractured Country by David Gilmour
  • The Tragedy of Lebanon: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventures and American Bunglers by Jonathan Randal
  • God cried by Tony Clifton and Catherine Leroy
  • Beirut: Frontline Story by Salim Nassib, Caroline Tisdall and Chris Steele-Perkins
  • The Fateful Triangle: Israel, the United States and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky

• Edward Said writes about a new literature of the Arab world · 7 July 1983

  • Aisha by Ahdaf Soueif

• Crazy America · 19 March 1981

• Grey Eminence · 5 March 1981

  • Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel

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