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Edward Said

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

From the London Review dated 20 March 2003

Always on Top

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

“After years of degeneration following the white man’s departure, the empires that ruled Africa and Asia don’t seem quite so bad. A crucial tactic of this revisionism is to read present-day American imperial power as enlightened and even altruistic, and to project that enlightenment back into the past.” [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain (2006)
Humanism and Democratic Criticism (2004) Buy this book
From Oslo to Iraq and the Roadmap (2004) Buy this book
Power, Politics and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said (2004) Buy this book
Freud and the Non-European (2003) Buy this book
Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said, edited by Ara Guzelimian (2002) Buy this book
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (2001)
The Edward Said Reader edited by Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin (2000)
Out of Place: A Memoir (1999)
Acts of Aggression: Policing ‘Rogue’ States by Noam Chomsky and Ramsey Clark, edited by Edward Said (1999)
Culture and Imperialism (1993)
Musical Elaborations (1991)
The World, the Text and the Critic (1984)
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (1981)
The Question of Palestine (1980)
Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (1978)
Beginnings: Intentions and Method (1975) Buy this book