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With the exception of Harold Pinter who describes the United States as a "fully-fledged, award-winning, gold-plated monster," the majority of contributors offer only fairly measured critiques of American foreign policy. Ahdaf Soueif and Raja Shehadeh condemn its failure to address the issue of a Palestinian state. While Ramachandra Guha maintains that it is the curious coexistence of contradictory values--democratic and yet instinctively imperialist--that tends to make America "not a pretty sight" on the world's stage. John Gray argues that America is just "too rich in contradictions for any definition of it to be possible"; in his opinion it is actually "unknowable." Doris Lessing makes a similar point. In her view, all talk of "America as if it were a homogenous unity isn't useful." But she does go on to hazard a few rather pertinent "generalizations" of her own. Taken individually some of the essays are quite insubstantial, but, without wishing to be banal, it is astonishing how thought-provoking they are as whole. Ranging from the intimate and autobiographical to the polemical, they provide an intriguing assessment of the world's remaining superpower. With an excerpt from J.M. Coetzee's novel Youth and pieces from Blake Morrison and Ziauddin Sardar, this issue is an absorbing read. --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk
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