The Architecture of Modern Empire

Auteur
Arundhati Roy is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017. She is the author of various works of nonfiction including My Seditious Heart, Azadi and, most recently, The Architecture of Modern Empire.

Résumé

'I try to create links, to join the dots, to tell politics like a story, to make it real'

Over a lifetime spent at the frontline of solidarity and resistance, Arundhati Roy's words have lit a clear way through the darkness that surrounds us. Combining the skills of the architect she trained to be and the writer she became, she illuminates the hidden structures of modern empire like no one else, revealing their workings so that we can resist.

Her subjects: war, nationalism, fundamentalism and rising fascism, turbocharged by neoliberalism and now technology. But also: truth, justice, freedom, resistance, solidarity and above all imagination in particular the imagination to see what is in front of us, to envision another way, and to fight for it.

Arundhati Roy's voice as distinct and compelling in conversation as in her writing explores these themes and more in this essential collection of interviews with David Barsamian, conducted over two decades, from 2001 to the present.