false 9877 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 9877 12 1934210 2002 Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 (Modern Library Paperbacks) total:304|5:71|4:142|3:80|2:11|1:0| 304 1185 455 32 3299 3.87 37662 4752 9472901 570489 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.91 282 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 5 4 false Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 23 22:12:44 -0800 2007 Sat Sep 13 00:07:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 43972254 184521 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 4 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 14:27:42 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 15:28:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 29308962 98562 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 2 1 false Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 08:48:20 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 16:31:37 -0700 2008
Snap.]]> 10622923 695451 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 5 0 false Tue Dec 18 08:12:38 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 18 09:55:44 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3573268 66319 321541 0679463348 9780679463344 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743430m/321541.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743430s/321541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321541.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.69 16
In Salman Rushdie’s latest collection of nonfiction, he crosses over the frontier and sees and tells things as they are, inviting readers to “step across this line” with him.

The essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in Step Across This Line, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. The collection chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writer’s psyche. With the same fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and very strong opinions that distinguish his fiction, Rushdie writes about his fascination with The Wizard of Oz, his obsession with soccer, and the state of the novel, among many other topics. Most notably, delving into his unique personal experience fighting the Iranian fatwa, he addresses the subject of militant Islam in a series of challenging and deeply felt responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book ends with the eponymous “Step Across This Line,” a lecture Rushdie delivered at Yale in the spring of 2002, which has never been published before and is sure to prompt discussion.

Rushdie’s first collection of nonfiction, Imaginary Homelands, offered a unique vision of politics, literature, and culture for the 1980s. Step Across This Line does the same and more for the last decade of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first.]]> 2002 3 0 false Thu Jul 26 10:10:21 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 10:31:51 -0700 2007 more...]]> 28339107 1255869 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 4 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 06:48:30 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 02:28:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1140882 81896 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 3 0 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 10 07:18:31 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 15:43:32 -0700 2007 The Wizard of Oz, his experience with the movie, the making of the movie, its symbolism...

My favourite quote:
"What [Dorothy] embodie...more...]]> 57506824 2359243 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 3 0 false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 10:59:59 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 11:03:08 -0700 2009 5379399 327003 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 4 0 false Thu Aug 30 14:43:41 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 11:42:07 -0700 2007
The one that sticks out to me, though, is his passionate defense of atheism & secular culture, "...more...]]> 9196758 349264 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 3 1 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 16 09:50:25 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 16 18:31:42 -0800 2007 Haroun and the Sea of Stories, read by the author.

So far, this book a wide-ranging collection of essays, speeches & articles. Some have been more engaging than others (h...more...]]> 60173761 2412154 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 3 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 09:27:04 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 09:28:33 -0700 2009 1963335 130595 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 4 0 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jun 14 09:34:58 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 14 13:56:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> 28859234 1383261 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 5 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Jul 31 06:24:42 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 19:49:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4804068 8531 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 3 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 20 07:35:57 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 06:01:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 37254816 1698051 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 5 0 false Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sun Nov 09 10:43:46 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 11:05:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 664129 48498 321541 0679463348 9780679463344 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743430m/321541.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173743430s/321541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321541.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304
In Salman Rushdie’s latest collection of nonfiction, he crosses over the frontier and sees and tells things as they are, inviting readers to “step across this line” with him.

The essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in Step Across This Line, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. The collection chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writer’s psyche. With the same fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and very strong opinions that distinguish his fiction, Rushdie writes about his fascination with The Wizard of Oz, his obsession with soccer, and the state of the novel, among many other topics. Most notably, delving into his unique personal experience fighting the Iranian fatwa, he addresses the subject of militant Islam in a series of challenging and deeply felt responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book ends with the eponymous “Step Across This Line,” a lecture Rushdie delivered at Yale in the spring of 2002, which has never been published before and is sure to prompt discussion.

Rushdie’s first collection of nonfiction, Imaginary Homelands, offered a unique vision of politics, literature, and culture for the 1980s. Step Across This Line does the same and more for the last decade of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first.]]> 2002 3 0 false Tue Apr 10 13:16:56 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 10 13:16:56 -0700 2007
Also, I saw Salman Rushdie read from this book in the weeks before it came out. It was the first time since teenagehood that I've felt inspired to become someone's groupie. He is *amazing* in person. I've seen other authors I love talk or re...more...]]> 15969439 928485 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 5 0 false Thu Feb 21 00:38:39 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 00:41:39 -0800 2008 46806842 2048124 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 4 0 false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Feb 18 17:16:07 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 07 18:43:25 -0700 2009 3844359 182422 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 4 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jul 31 07:20:17 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 07:21:57 -0700 2007 1367514 93483 9877 0679783490 9780679783497 29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043m/9877.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166072043s/9877.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9877.Step_Across_This_Line_Collected_Nonfiction_1992_2002 3.90 304 For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and shifting lines. —from Part IV

With astonishing range and depth, the essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in this book chronicle a ten-year intellectual odyssey by one of the most important, creative, and respected minds of our time. Step Across This Line concentrates in one volume Salman Rushdie’s fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and irrepressible wit—about soccer, The Wizard of Oz, and writing, about fighting the Iranian fatwa and turning with the millennium, and about September 11, 2001. Ending with the eponymous, never-before-published speeches, this collection is, in Rushdie’s words, a “wake-up call” about the way we live, and think, now.]]> 2002 5 0 false Tue May 22 11:23:05 -0700 2007 Tue May 22 11:38:28 -0700 2007 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=9877