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[...] Rushdie emerged from the fatwa a damaged writer, his puns reflexes, his recourse to myth and fable showing signs of hackery. He took to appearing onstage with U2, grinning with Bono under the suspended Trabants of their Zooropa tour. To view him now — witty but humorless, soft and thick with …

Across the hall, the purely academic panels in the 1980s were, for better or worse, more vituperative.

Insurrectionary Gordimer has given way to the the sedulously horrified Coetzee

the Iranian revolution - itself a salvo against cultural globalization

In the more recent fiction of a pacified Europe, a smooth EU-niversality prevails in place of the old strife within and between countries. Handke, such a late modernist that the party appears to have ended, is an Austrian who lives in Paris; but can you regularly identify the city or country his pe…