I. A Report on the Afterlife of Culture
Page 10-73
II. Reports from the World
Page 74-123
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-----1. The Uses of Englishness
Page 76-85
-----2. Mexico Against Itself
Page 86-99
-----3. Mayan Guatemala Revisited
Page 100-105
-----4. New Europe Grows Old
Page 106-115
-----5. Watching the G8 in Luanda
Page 116-119
-----6. Travel, Writing – and the Unexpected Links between Them
Page 120-123
III. Words in the World
Page 124-221
-----1. The Translation Gap
Page 126-141
-----2. Carlos Fuentes
Page 142-149
-----3. João Ubaldo Ribeiro
Page 150-153
-----4. Wole Soyinka
Page 154-157
-----5. Julio Cortázar
Page 158-163
-----6. Günter Grass
Page 164-167
-----7. Haruki Murakami
Page 168-173
-----8. Mario Vargas Llosa
Page 174-179
-----9. Cuban Writing Beyond Inside and Out
Page 180-187
-----10. Gabriel García Márquez
Page 188-193
-----11. Péter Esterházy
Page 194-197
-----12. José Saramago
Page 198-205
-----13. Roberto Bolaño
Page 206-213
-----14. The Angolan Novel
Page 214-221
IV. Words for Our World
Page 222-341
-----1. Yes, Toronto, I Do Own a Black Turtleneck
Page 224-227
-----2. Court Jester
Page 228-231
-----3. Totalitarian Democracy
Page 232-235
-----4. Bad Spellers
Page 236-239
-----5. In Praise of Borders
Page 240-243
-----6. Writing the City
Page 244-247
-----7. White Curtains
Page 248-251
-----8. Becoming French
Page 252-257
-----9. How They Don’t See Us
Page 258-261
-----10. Translated from the American
Page 262-265
-----11. Nations Without Publishers
Page 266-269
-----12. Atwood’s Interventions
Page 270-281
-----13. An Ending for Alice Munro
Page 282-289
-----14. Ondaatje’s People
Page 290-295
-----15. Leaving Canada: Generational Change in a Historical Vacuum
Page 296-319
-----16. The Afterlife of Criticism
Page 320-341
Acknowledgements
Page 342-344
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