The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: The Architecture of Modern Empire (Interviews: 2001-2022)

By Arundhati Roy

Book Overview

A revelatory and wide-ranging series of interviews with award-winning writer Arundhati Roy, touching on modern imperialism, justice movements, a writer's work, and more.

As a novelist, Arundhati Roy is known for her lush language and intricate structure. As a political essayist, her prose is searching and fierce. All of these qualities shine through in the interviews collected here by David Barsamian.

First published in 2004, this newly reissued and expanded edition, featuring interviews from 2001 to 2022 and a moving foreword by Naomi Klein, introduces Roy's powerful political vision to a new generation of readers. Moving from Roy's childhood in India to the many forms of state terror to women's resistance movements, and from corruption in present-day India to the craft of writing to the work of fighting back from within the hub of empire, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile is a searing reckoning with the mechanics of power, in all its forms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1642599093
• ISBN13: 9781642599091
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Length: 250 Pages