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| A Commencement Address | 136 | |
| "Imagine There's No Heaven" | 141 | |
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| India's Fiftieth Anniversary | 159 | |
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| A Dream of Glorious Return | 180 | |
| II | Messages From the Plague Years | 211 |
| III | Columns | 259 |
| December 1998: Three Leaders | 261 | |
| January 1999: The Millennium | 263 | |
| February 1999: Ten Years of the Fatwa | 265 | |
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| April 1999: Rock Music | 269 | |
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| June 1999: Kashmir | 274 | |
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| January 2000: Terror Versus Security | 288 | |
| February 2000: Jorg Haider | 290 | |
| March 2000: Amadou Diallo | 293 | |
| April 2000: Elian Gonzalez | 295 | |
| May 2000: J. M. Coetzee | 297 | |
| June 2000: Fiji | 299 | |
| July 2000: Sport | 301 | |
| August 2000: Two Crashes | 303 | |
| September 2000: Senator Lieberman | 305 | |
| October 2000: The Human Rights Act | 307 | |
| November 2000: Going to Electoral College | 309 | |
| December 2000: A Grand Coalition? | 312 | |
| January 2001: How the Grinch Stole America | 314 | |
| February 2001: Sleaze Is Back | 317 | |
| March 2001: Crouching Striker, Hidden Danger | 319 | |
| April 2001: It Wasn't Me | 322 | |
| May 2001: Abortion in India | 324 | |
| June 2001: Reality TV | 326 | |
| July 2001: The Release of the Bulger Killers | 329 | |
| August 2001: Arundhati Roy | 331 | |
| September 2001: Telluride | 333 | |
| October 2001: The Attacks on America | 336 | |
| November 2001: Not About Islam? | 339 | |
| February 2002: Anti-Americanism | 341 | |
| March 2002: God in Gujarat | 344 | |
| IV | Step Across this Line | 347 |
| Acknowledgments | 383 | |
| Index | 385 |
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Uyguyiu Uñoipok
reviewed Step across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 on July 12, 2012
Step across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
Somewhere in the course of this collection of his non-fiction works, Rushdie says, "[we].. are like a child picking shells on the beach never noticing the huge ocean of magnificient beauty right in front of it..". I sit mesmerized, looking around myself in awe, wondering where to start and where to end. When there is so much to know, so much that intrigues and so much that enraptures, there is sometimes a real danger of absorbing nothing or worse, wasting one's time in indecision. This book is like the world around us, profoundly euridite, exhaustingly diverse and sometimes almost ecstatically egoistical. As if revelling in its abiity to take us on this whirlwind tour through Rushdie's thoughts. The celebrated writer in his unique style captures the essense of the demons striking at the roots of humanity in today's times. The one overriding theme of this book is his perennial almost feverish exhortions to push the frontiers of our humanity, to express ourselves in all of our vain, silly, good, bad, notorious and imaginitive glory, to "step across the line". To actually not lose in our victory by giving in to fear of the hands muffling our mouths determined not to let the voices be heard. Rushdie is simply a magnificient writer and I write this in all my twenty six year old idealistic ignorance. Step Across The Line is, mildly put, an eclectic collection of essays, notes and features on topics as diverse as Wizard of Oz to English Soccer to the 9-11. If intelligence has sex appeal, then Rushdie is the quintessential Mata Hari or even better, a reader's Marlyn Monroe forever ready to beguile us with the flowing skirts of his imagination revealed by the gust of wind which is his writing.
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