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Mickey Z
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Friday, September 03, 2004
Mickey Z. on Arundhati Roy
My review of the recent Arundhati Roy interview book is in the September
issue of Z Magazine in stores now.
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The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile
Conversations with Arundhati Roy
By David Barsamian; Foreword by Naomi Klein
South End Press, Boston, 2004; 178 pp.
Review by Mickey Z.
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While much of the U.S. is focused on a presidential campaign between two war-mongering Yale graduates, the primary conflict on the planet remains unaltered: globalization from above vs. globalization from below. Arund- hati Roy, the Indian-born author of the novel The God of Small Things, discusses this fundamental clash in a series of interviews with David Barsamian collected in The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile.
When reading commentary like, “I think it is dangerous to confuse the idea of democracy with elections. Just because you have elections doesn’t mean you’re a democratic country,” it’s not an exaggeration to declare this book has arrived in the proverbial nick of time. There’s plenty to say about The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile, but its greatest value lies in recognizing Roy as the right messenger at the right moment.
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