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1968 revolution, 63 , 64 , 146 , 147 Arnold, Matthew, 158 2001 attacks in New York, 1 ‘Dover Beach’, 155 9/11 novel, the, 123–64 , 215 , 225 Atta, Mohamed, 149 9/11 wars, 167 Attridge, Derek, 109 Atwood, Margaret, 6 , 30 , 31 , 98 abattoir, the, 110 , 200 Negotiating with the Dead , 31 Abu Ghraib, 161 Oryx and Crake , 14 , 211 , 217–21 Achebe, Chinua, 169 , 171–3 , 174 , 176 , 178 , 179 , Th e Penelopiad , 31 180 Th e Year of the Flood , 217 Acker, Kathy, 25 Augustine, 84 Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 7 , 209 Auschwitz, 201 , 202 Half of a Yellow Sun , 174–88 Austen, Jane, 214 , 215 Adiga, Aravind, 6 Auster, Paul, 6 , 31 , 126 , 142 Th e White Tiger , 133 Book of Illusions , 31 Adorno, Th eodor, 17 , 22 , 23 , 38 , 140 avant-garde, the, 13 , 25 , 26 , 124 , 127–8 , 144 , 147 , Aesthetic Th eory , 17 , 144 152 , 158 , 214 , 216 Prisms , 230n13 Afghanistan war, 13 , 138 , 167 Balham underground station, 66 Agamben, Giorgio, 2 , 3 , 16 , 17 , 79 , Ballard, J. G., 6 , 30 , 215 95 , 96 , 111 , 114 , 116 , 117 , 163 , High Rise , 22 202–4 , 208 Millennium People , 31 bare life, 16 , 89 , 92 , 195 , 199 , 202–4 Banville, John, 6 , 157 , 158 Homo Sacer , 203 Ancient Light , 31 , 97 Al Qaeda, 141 , 168 Eclipse , 97 Alexie, Sherman, 6 , 168 Barker, Nicola Ali, Monica, 6 , 168 Darkmans , 80 Altieri, Charles, 16 Barnes, Julian, 4 , 6 , 22 , 30 , 80 Alzheimer’s disease, 158 Th e Sense of an Ending , 4 Amazon booksellers, 8 , 211 Barrie, J.M. Amis, Martin, 6 , 80 , 125 , 144 Peter Pan , 151 Th e Pregnant Widow , 31 , 37 Barth, John, 24 , 46 , 51 Yellow Dog , 126 Barthes, Roland, 2 , 51 , 52 , 71 amnesia, 82 Baudrillard, Jean, 51 , 128 androgyny, 87 Bauman, Zygmunt, 4–5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 15 , 27 , animal rights, 85 37 , 122 anthropocentrism, 86 Liquid Modernity , 4 apocalypticism, 12 , 14 , 15 , 22 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 35 , 212 , Beatles, the, 63 216 , 217 , 221 , 224 Beaumont, Matthew, 213 Aquinas, Th omas, 85 Beckett, Samuel, 23–5 , 28 , 33 , 124 , 127 , 147 , 177 , Aristotle, 200 , 208 217 , 219 , 225 Armstrong, Nancy, 20 Th e Calmative , 31

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Beckett, Samuel (cont.) Carroll, Rachel, 106 Endgame , 23 , 24 , 222 Carter, Angela, 25 , 46 How It Is , 24 Th e Passion of New Eve , 63 Malone Dies , 24 , 118 Caruth, Cathy, 82 Molloy , 28 Casanova, Pascale, 8 , 179 Murphy , 23 Cassidy, John, 125 Th e Unnamable , 24 Cavell, Stanley, 116 Waiting for Godot , 23 Chabon, Michael Beecroft, Vanessa, 95 Th e Yiddish Policeman’s Union , 64 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 37 , 38 Chakrabarthy, Dipesh, 16 , 172 Begam, Richard, 230n20 Chateaubriand, 38 Beigbeder, Frédéric Chea, Pheng, and Suzanne Guerlac, 228n33 Windows on the World , 126 Chomsky, Noam Bellow, Saul, 215 Hegemony or Survival , 229n6 Bennet, Alice, 231n37 Christianity, 84–5 , 139 , 222–4 Berger, John, 61–2 , 63 , 67 , 74 , 77 , 150 Christie, Julie, 63 Bergson, Henri, 42 Ciudad Juárez, 243n42 Creative Evolution , 232n4 climate change, 216 Berman, Marshall, 50 cloning, 98–106 , 112 , 113 , 132 Bernhard, Th omas, 25 Coetzee, J. M., 6 , 11 , 30 , 31 , 86 , 108–22 , 125 , 163 , Besley, Catherine, 10 209 , 213 , 221 Bewes, Timothy, 62 , 109 , 115 , 153 ‘As a Woman Grows Older’, 237n33 Bhabha, Homi, 16 , 86 , 170–1 , 173–4 , 178 , 179 , 183 Diary of a Bad Year , 108–9 , 115 , 117 , 119 , 122 Bhopal, 124 Disgrace , 112 Biennale of Sydney, 93 Doubling the Point , 120 binding, 11 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28, 29 , 36 , 55 , 73 , 74 , 75 , ‘Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett’, 79 , 89 , 97–106 , 101–6 , 117 , 123–64 , 182 , 112 , 114–15 , 116 199 , 204 , 205 , 218 Elizabeth Costello , 30 , 85–6 , 108 , 109–15 , 117 , biotechnology, 88 , 89 , 93 , 97 , 101 235n1 Blair, Tony, 165 , 167 , 169 , 179 Slow Man , 108 , 115–20 , 121–2 Blanchot, Maurice, 215 Summertime , 108 , 115 Bohr, Niels, 42 , 49 Cohen, Joshua Bolaño, Roberto, 7 , 11 , 168 , 191 Witz , 217 2666 , 64 , 165–6 , 181 , 189–209 , 210–11 , 213 , cold war, the, 26 221 , 225 Connolly, Cyril, 68–70 , 72 , 75 Amulet , 80 Conrad, Joseph, 39 By Night in Chile , 205 , 208 Th e Shadow Line , 33–7 , 60 , 222 Bon, François, 6 , 11 Copenhagen interpretation, the, 49 Bouchard, Gianna, 96 Cormack, Alistair, 71 Bray Dunes, 65 Cuidad Juárez, 190 , 193 , 195 Brooke-Rose, Christine, 25 Cushing, James, 49 Buell, Lawrence, 217 cyborg, 90–1 Burke, Jason, 167 Burroughs, William, 215 Dabbagh, Selma, 168 Bush, George W., 31 , 131 , 138 Dancer, Th om, 158 Butler, Judith, 16 , 92 , 97 Dante Alighieri Bodies Th at Matter , 16 Th e Divine Comedy , 22 Gender Trouble , 16 , 87 Dava Sobel Giving and Account of Oneself , 16 Longitude , 229n3 Precarious Life , 16 , 163–4 de Groot, Jerome, 66 Deborah Lipstadt, 232n9 Camus, Albert, 85 Debord, Guy, 190 Carey, Peter, 7 Th e Society of the Spectacle , 63 Th e Chemisty of Tears , 98 Debussy, Claude, 76 Th e True History of the Kelly Gang , 81 decolonisation, 86–7 , 169 , 174

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deconstruction, 16 , 87 What is the What , 174–88 Defoe, Daniel, 219 Einstein, Albert, 42 , 47 , 49 , 66 Robinson Crusoe , 19–21 , 23 , 29 , 34 , 217–18 , 220 Eitner, Lorenz, 234n48 Deleuze, Gilles, 23 electronic book, 210 DeLillo, Don, 5 , 6 , 10 , 25–30 , 35 , 36 , 39 , 97 , 115 , Eliot, George, 215 123 , 125 , 132 , 139 , 153 , 209 Eliot, T.S., 37 , 38–9 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 49 , 54 , 57 , 58 Americana , 25–7 , 28 ‘Little Gidding’, 37 , 59 Th e Body Artist , 27–9 , 35 , 39 end of history, the, 15 , 35 , 60 , 85 , 223 , Cosmopolis , 27–8 , 29 See also Fukuyama, Francis Falling Man , 126 , 128 , 129–31 , 139–40 , 141 , Enlightenment, the, 85 , 86 , 87 149 , 153 , 156 , 158 , 160 , 163 environment, the, 14 , 166 , 216–25 Great Jones Street , 6 Erasmus, Desiderius, 85 Mao II , 13 , 124 , 125 , 126–8 , 131 , 141 , 146 , 149 , 160 Eshelman, Raoul, 59 ‘Midnight in Dostoevsky’, 28 ethical turn, 141 Th e Names , 131 Europrocentrism, 86 Point Omega , 5 , 10 , 27–8 , 35 ‘ Th e Starveling’, 28 Fanon, Franz, 86 Underworld , 25 , 26–7 , 28 , 133 , 192 Th e Wretched of the Earth , 86 White Noise , 29 , 127 Farred, Grant, 196 democracy, 13–14 , 83 , 143 , 160 , 161 , 165–209 , fascism, 129 , 208 214 , 225 Faulkner, William, 1 , 5 , 33 , 46 , 81 democracy to come, 192 , 204 , 209 Requiem for a Nun , 81 democratic lag, 189 Th e Sound and the Fury , 1 , 2–4 , 5 , 10 , 14 , 220 Deng, Valentino Achak, 174–88 feminism, 87 Denham, Scott, and Mark McCulloh, 235n65 third wave feminism, 87 Derrida, Jacques, 16 , 122 , 141 , 163 , 187 , 191–2 , Fielding, Henry, 72 194 , 203 , 204 Fine, Arthur, 232n4 ‘ Th e Animal Th at Th erefore I Am’, 121 Finney, Brian, 71 Th e Beast and the Sovereign , 191 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 214 , 215 Th e Politics of Friendship , 191 Fitzroy Square, 154 Rogues , 191 forced migrancy, 175 , 183–8 Desai, Kiran, 7 , 59 , 168 Foster, Hal, 10 Th e Inheritance of Loss , 174 Foster Wallace, David, 11 Descartes, René, 85 , 110 , 112 Foucault, Michel, 17–18 , 51 d’Espagnat, Bernard, 49 Fowles, John, 65 , 66 , 67 Dickens, Charles Th e French Lieutenant’s Woman , 52 , 55 , 66 , 70 Great Expectations , 25 Franzen, Jonathan, 6 DNA, 89 Freedom , 126 , 189–90 Docherty, Th omas, 190 freedom, 189–92 , 194 , 195 , 202–3 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 147 Fukuyama, Francis, 23 , 167 Douglass, Frederick, 177 , 185 Th e End of History and Th e Last Man , 230n13 Th e Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , futurism, 144 177 Dunkirk, 75 Gadaﬃ , Muammar, 80 Dunkirk, retreat to, 64 , 65 Gasiorek, Andrzej, 230n22 dystopia, 47 , 212 , 216 , 217 , 225 , See also utopia Gates, Bill, 5 Genet, Jean, 37 Eaglestone, Robert, 232n9 genetic modiﬁ cation, 211 ecocatastrophe, 217 Géricault, Th éodore, 61 , 62 economic crisis, 168 ‘Portrait of a Kleptomaniac’, 61 Edelman, Lee, 14 Ghosh, Amitav, 6 Egan, Jennifer, 6 , 11 , 191 Th e Glass Palace , 80 A Visit from the Goon Squad , 79 , 126 , 189 Gibson, William, 11 Eggers, Dave, 6, 204 Pattern Recognition , 10 , 126 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, 179 Spook Country , 81 , 211–13

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global warming, 216 Huntington’s disease, 155 globalisation, 165–210 , 225 Hustvedt, Siri, 7 , 150 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Hutcheon, Linda, 59 Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship , 104 Huyssen, Andreas, 235n65 Google Earth, 216 hybridity, 101 , 105 , 138 , 139 , 142 , 153 , 160 , 169 , Gordon, Douglas, 10 172 , 173–88 24 Hour Psycho , 10 Gramsci, Antonio, 189 , 225 Imperial War Museum, 67 Grant, Linda, 125 Indian independence, 52–4 , 55 , 56 Granta , 80 instantaneity, 5 , 6 , 8 , 15 , 27 , 122 Green, Henry, 46 intertexuality, 72 Green, Jeremy, 59 Iraq war, 13 , 138 , 155 , 167 , 190 Greengrass, Paul Ishiguro, Kazuo, 7 , 112 , 127 United 93 , 150 Never Let Me Go , 98–108 , 112 , 113 , 114 , 132 , 183 Groes, Sebastian and Barry Lewis, 237n29 Th e Unconsoled , 105 Grossman, David, 125 Islam, 126 , 128–40 , 142 , 156 , 167 Guantanamo Bay, 161 Guardian, Th e , 124 , 125 James, Henry, 33 , 66 , 72 Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich, 10 Ghost Writer , 33 Th e Golden Bowl , 68 , 72 , 74 Hall, Sarah ‘ Th e Middle Years’, 33 , 38 Th e Carhullan Army , 14 , 217 What Maisie Knew , 72 Hamid, Mohsin, 6 , 97 , 153 , 168 Jameson, Fredric, 9 , 15 , 17 , 22 , 40 , 57 , 213 , 216 Th e Reluctant Fundamentalist , 126 , 128 , Archaeologies of the Future , 213 131–40 , 142–4 , 147 , 151 , 153 , 154 , 156 , 160 Th e End of Temporality, 230n13 Hamill, Pete, 125 Postmodernism Hanley, James, 46 Or, Th e Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism , Haraway, Donna, 90–1 230n13 Hardt, Michael A Singular Modernity , 41 , 45 , 213 Empire , 170 Jelinek, Elfriede, 6 , 30 Multitude , 170 Jennings, Kate, 97 Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri, 21, 166 , 167 Moral Hazard , 126 , 158 Empire , 21 Jesus Christ, 165–6 , 167 , 223 Hartley, L.P. Jiabo, Wen, 133 Th e Go-Between , 43 Jian, Ma, 6 Hartnell, Anna, 239n18 Beijing Coma , 98 Hayden, Patrick, 216 Johnson, B.S., 25 Head, Dominic, 74 , 139–40 , 149 , 160 Joyce, James, 24 , 46 , 147 , 151 Heise, Ursula, 8 , 10 , 216 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , 104 , Heisenberg, Werner, 42, 49 , 51 , 233n14 147 , 170 Hemingway, Ernest, 33 Ulysses , 145 Hemon, Alexander Judaism, 85 , 129 , 201–2 Nowhere Man , 8 0 Herzen, Alexander, 31 , 35 , 189 Kac, Eduardo, 95 historical ﬁ ction 40–83 Kadare, Ismail, 6 Ho Davies, Peter, 7 , 168 Spring Flowers, Spring Frost , 80 Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 85 Kafka, Franz, 24 , 30 , 111–12 , 120 , 152 Holocaust, the, 110 ‘A Report to an Academy’, 104 , 111–12 , 114 Holocaust denial, 45 Metamorphosis , 75 Horizon , 68 Th e Trial , 145 Höroldt, Johann Gregorius, 69 , 74 Kayman, Martin, A., 228n24 Hudson corridor, the, 130 Kearney, Ken, 220 Hughes, Ted, 112 Keats, John, 31 , 33 , 36 human rights, 89 Kelly, Adam, 127 human, the, 13 , 83 , 84–122 , 214 , 221 , 224 , 225 Kelman, James, 6 , 11 , 30 , 97 , 153

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Translated Accounts , 161–3 , 238n1 Man on Wire , 141 , 142 You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free , Marx, Karl, 50 126 Masterman, C.F.G., 213 Kennedy, A.L. Matar, Hisham, 6 Day , 64 In the Country of Men , 80 Kermode, Frank, 22 Mbembe, Achille, 16 , 172 , 173 Th e Sense of an Ending , 229n13 McCann, Colum Kincaid, Jamaica, 169 Let the Great World Spin , 126 , 141 Kleist, Heinrich von, 85 McCarthy, Cormac, 6 , 98 Knapp, Peggy, 158 Th e Road , 11 , 14 , 210 , 218–25 Köhler, Wolfgang McCarthy, Tom, 6 , 11 , 21–2 , 83 , 244n10 Th e Mentality of Apes , 113 C , 21 , 27 Kojève, Alexandre, 23 Remainder , 10 , 21–2 , 23 , 31 , 80 , 81–2 , 214–15 Introduction to the Reading of Hegel , McCrum, Robert, 125 230n13 McEwan, Ian, 6 , 79 , 80 , 83 , 124–5 , 128 , 153 , 162 Korthals Altes, Liesbeth, 242n23 Amsterdam , 159 Krauss, Nicole, 6 Atonement , 64–79 , 80 , 81 , 92 , 96 , 154 Th e House of Love , 80 Enduring Love , 154 Kureishi, Hanif, 169 ‘Literature, Science and Human Nature’, 156 Saturday , 126 , 153–61 , 162–3 laboratory animal, 112–15 , 116 , 120 Solar , 154 Lacks, Henrietta, 88–9 , 90 , 91–2 , 96 , 101 McGurl, Mark, 214 Lanchester, John, 168 McInernay, Jay, 125 late culture, 12 , 15 , 19–39 , 221 , 222 , 225 McTavish, Lianne, 236n20 Leavis, F. R., 104 Mda, Zakes, 7 Ledger, Sally, 4 medical ethics, 88 Ledger, Sally and Roger Luckhurst, 244n6 Messud, Claire, 6 , 97 , 144 , 153 , 158 Lehman brothers, 168 Th e Emperor’s Children , 126 , 145–52 , 153 , 154 , Lethem, Jonathan, 6 158 , 160 Th e Fortress of Solitude , 10 , 228n19 metaﬁ ction, 78 , 111 , 116 , 118 , 179–88 , 214 Levy, Andrea, 6 , 168 metamodernism, 59 Lingwood, James, 236n18 Miller, Tyrus, 23 Lispector, Clarice, 215 Late Modernism , 230n13 Littell, Jonathan, 7 Milton, John, 216 , 219 Th e Kindly Ones , 64 , 80 , 201 Mitchell, David, 6 , 168 , 191 , 204 Lodge, David, 62 Cloud Atlas , 80 , 189 , 211–13 , 217 , 223 Th e Modes of Modern Writing , 52 , 59 Ghostwritten , 80 , 189 Long, J. J., and Anne Whitehead, 235n65 modernism, 13 , 24–5 , 46 , 49 , 50 , 57 , 66 , 67 , 144 , Lopez, Jose and Gary Potter 147 , 152 , 213 After Postmodernism , 59 late modernism, 25 , 28 , 127 Low wage labour, 196 Monárrez Fragoso, Julia, 243n42 Luckhurst, Roger, 4 Moore, George, 199 Lusitania, Th e , 124 More, Th omas, 85 Lynch, David Utopia , 107 , 237n34 Mulholland Drive , 96 Morrison, Toni, 6 , 25 , 51 , 169 Lyotard, Jean-François, 42 , 51 Beloved , 169 A Mercy , 80 Macherey, Pierre, 91 Muhammad Knight, Michael Malkani, Gautam, 168 Osama Van Halen , 126 Londonstani , 126 , 174 Mukherjee, Pablo, 144 , 153 Malouf, David, 7 Mulhall, Stephen, 120–1 Mandel, Ernest, 22 Munroe, Alice, 6 , 30 Marcus, Laura, 71 Murakami, Haruki, 6 , 11 Márquez, Gabriel García, 24 , 46 IQ84 , 80 , 189 Marsh, James Sputnik Sweetheart , 89

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Murdoch, Iris, 46 posthumous narration, 30–3 , 37–8 , 63 , 64 , 109 , Musil, Robert, 147 , 148 , 151 , 152 231n37 Th e Man Without Qualities , 147 postmodernism, 12 , 15–17 , 24–5 , 46 , 60 , 62 , 79 , 80 , 87 , 90–1 , 116 , 127 , 128 , 147 , 152 , 170 , Nagel, Th omas, 109 171 , 172 , 173 , 178 , 179 , 214 Naipaul, V.S., 169 , 172 , 179 late postmodernism, 59 Th e House for Mr Biswas , 169 postmodern historiography, 40–3 , 45–60 , Nancy, Jean-Luc 66–7 , 71 , 80 Th e Experience of Freedom , 191 post-postmodernism, 16 , 58 , 59 Nasta, Shusheila, 7 postnationalism, 12 National socialism, 203 poststructuralism, 12 , 87 , 173 Nazism, 64 , 110 , 165 , 167 , 193 , 196 , 201 , 203 post-theory, 42 Nealon, Jeﬀ rey, T., 16 practical criticism, 104 Post-Postmodernism , 58 Princeton University, 111 , 131 , 132 , 134 , 137 Nehru, Jawaharlal, 53–4 , 55 , 56 , 60 prosthetics, 90 , 91 , 95 , 122 , 182–3 , 185 , 198 neoliberalism, 196 Proust, Marcel, 24 , 42 , 46 , 52 , 82 , 147 Ngũ̃gı wa Th iong’o, 86 , 169 , 178 A la recherché du temps perdu , 25 , 44 , 147 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 2 psychoanalysis, 87 Nigerian-Biafran war, 174–5 , 176–7 puppetry, 182–3 , 185 , 186 , 187 nudity, 39 , 95–7 , 111 , 113 , 114 , 117–20 , 121 , 147 , Pynchon, Th omas, 6 , 24 , 193 148 , 187 , 191 , 195 , 200 , 202 , 219 Against the Day , 126 Gravity’s Rainbow , 2 3 Obama, Barack, 81 Observer, Th e , 125 quantum mechanics, 49 Oe, Kenzaburo, 6 , 30 O’Neill, Joseph, 30 , 144 , 231n33 Readings, Bill Netherland , 126 , 214–15 , 219 Th e University in Ruins , 243n1 Orlan, 95 , 95–7 , 99 , 102 , 106 , 107 , 109 , Renaissance, the, 85 117 , 163 Renshon, Stanley, 241n9 , 241n9 ‘surgery performances’, 95–6 Rhys, Jean, 169 Orwell, George, 46–52 , 57 , 58 , 80 Richardson, Samuel, 72 Nineteen Eighty-Four , 46–52 , 54 , 57 , 78 , 82 Richetti, John, 229n5 Rimbaud, Arthur, 176 , 177 Pamuk, Orhan, 6 Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 52 Th e Museum of Innocence , 80 Robertson, Roland, 166 Snow , 80 Robinson, Marilynne , 6 , 30 , 31 Perec, Georges, 215 Gilead , 31 performatism, 59 Robinson, Richard, 67 , 71 , 74 Petit, Philippe, 141–2 Roiphe, Katie, 125 Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy, Roosevelt, Th eodore, 241n9 228n33 Rorty, Richard, 110 , 112 , 125 , 156 , 157 Phillips, Caryl Roth, Philip, 6 , 30–9 , 126 , 144 , 209 A Distant Shore , 174 Th e Dying Animal , 30 photography, 82 Everyman , 30 Piccinini, Patricia, 93–5 , 99 , 117 Exit Ghost , 30 , 31–9 ‘Still Life with Stem Cells’, 93–5 , 98 Th e Ghost Writer , 33 Pinochet, Augusto, 208 Th e Humbling , 30 Pizzino, Christopher, 244n20 Indignation , 30 , 31 Plato, 110 , 112 , 156 Nemesis , 30 political turn, 16 Th e Plot Against America , 64 Pollak, Oscar, 152 Roy, Arundhati, 125 postcolonialism, 12 , 15 , 16 , 57, 58 , 60 , 86–7 , Royle, Nicholas, 122 169–209 Quilt , 10 postfeminism, 12 , 87 Rushdie, Salman, 7 , 24 , 25 , 46 , 50–8 , 60 , 66 , 67 , posthumanism, 13 , 90–1 , 108 , 214 71 , 74 , 77 , 80 , 125 , 169 , 170

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Th e Ground Beneath her Feet , 80 Speigelman, Art Midnight’s Children , 41 , 52–8 , 60 , 63 , 66 , 70 , In the Shadow of No Towers , 126 75 , 78 Spivak, Gayatri, 86 , 115 , 170 ‘Outside the Whale’, 50 Stamp, Terence, 63 Th e Satanic Verses , 58 Stein, Gertrude, 46 Shame , 170 Th e Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas , 175 Ryman, Geoff , 9 , 11 stem cells, 93–4 , 99 Air , 9 , 81 Stevens, Wallace Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction , 118–19 Safran Foer, Jonathan, 6 , 144 Strauss, Richard, 36 , 37 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close , 126 Four Last Songs , 32 , 33 Said, Edward, 86 , 161 Strehle, Susan, 180 On Late Style , 37–38 subalternity, 57 , 170 , 176 , 178 Salinger, J. D., 193 suicide bomb, 129 Salisbury, Laura, 153 Summers-Bremner, Eluned, 237n30 Salpêtrière, La, 61 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1 , 5 , 22 , 85 , 86 Taylor, Elizabeth, 46 Satrapi, Marjane, 7 , 168 telepathy, 56 , 72 , 100 , 103 , 128 , 182 Schoenberg, Arnold, 38 terrorism, 13 , 123–64 Schoene, Berthold, 7 , 168–9 , 240n34 Tew, Philip, 10 Schrödinger, Erwin, 49 , 233n14 Th irlwell, Adam, 210 , 215 scientifi c behaviourism, 104 Tóbín, Colm, 6 Scott, David, 232n4 T o ff oletti, Kim, 236n19 Sebald, W. G., 6 , 80 , 83 Tolliver Brown, Paul, 232n4 Austerlitz , 81 , 82–3 Tolstoy, Leo, 125 second life, 90 Tomasula, Steve, 236n21 Selvon, Sam, 169 , 170 trauma, 75–7 , 81–3 Th e Lonely Londoners , 169 Tremain, Rose, 6 Sennett, Richard, 5 Th e Road Home , 174 September 11 attacks, 13 , 123–64 , 167–8 , 169 , Twitchell, Elizabeth, 181 225 Tyler, Anne, 6 Ground Zero, 32 Th e Beginner’s Goodbye , 3 1 Sex and the City , 145 Shakespeare, William, 37 United Nations, the, 183 , 184 , 185 Hamlet , 21 , 37 , 186 , 224 university, the, 211 , 214 , 243n1 Shamsie, Kamila, 7 Updike, John, 97 , 132 , 139 , 153 Burnt Shadows , 64 , 126 Terrorist , 128–9 , 130 , 131 , 140 , 160 Shields, David, 10 utopia, 14 , 101 , 103 , 106–8 , 152 , 156–60 , 172 , 204 , single European currency, 168 213 , 216 , 225 Skloot, Rebecca, 91 , 92 Th e Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks , 88–9 Valentino Achak Deng foundation, the, 179 slavery, 85 , 212 Venice Biennale, 93 slow motion, 10 , 27 , 29 , 35 , 36 , 118 , 122 , 206 , Vermeulen, Timotheus and Robin van den 207 , 216 Akker, 59 Smith, Ali, 6 , 74 , 79 , 80 , 83 Versluys, Kristiann, 140 Th e Accidental , 43–5 , 53 , 64 , 66 , 79 Virilio, Paul, 5 , 7 , 10 , 19 , 22 , 27 , 29 , 45 , 122 Smith, Zadie, 6 , 10 , 124 , 168 Open Sky , 7 ‘Two Directions for the Novel’, 214–16 , 219 Voltaire, 85 Soja, Edward W., 241n13 Sophocles, 37 Waldman, Amy, 6 , 30 , 231n33 Souief, Ahdaf, 125 Th e Submission , 126 , 128 , 135 , 137 , 145 sovereignty, 13–14 , 16 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 58 , 83 , 85 , 86 , Walker, Alice 89 , 92 , 116 , 136 , 138 , 160 , 164 , 165–209 , Th e Color Purple , 169 214 , 225 Walton, Heather, 237n35 Spark, Muriel, 46 Waterstones booksellers, 8 , 211

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Watt, Ian, 229n5 A Room of One’s Own , 87 Waugh, Patricia Th e Waves , 63 ‘Histiriographical Metaﬁ ction’, 51 Woolley, Agnes, 184 Metaﬁ ction , 51 World Trade Center, the, 126 , 130 , 131 , 132 , 136 , Wells, H.G., 125 141–2 , 164 Wharton, Edith, 146 World War One, 35 , 69 , 70 , 71 White, Hayden World War Two, 47 , 62 , 63 , 64–8 , 75–7 , 165–6 , Metahistory , 51 193 , 201–3 Whiteread, Rachel ‘House’, 92 Yamashita, Karen Tei, 7 , 11 Windrush , 169 I Hotel , 80 witness testimony, 65 , 66 , 68 , 77–9 , Yates, Richard, 215 80 , 81 Yeats, W. B., 22 , 55 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 79 , 198–200 Young, Jock On Certainty , 199 , 200 Th e Vertigo of Late Modernity , 230n13 Philosophical Investigations , 73 Yun, Mia Wood, James, 66 , 125 House of Winds , 8 0 Woolf, Virginia, 42 , 46 , 66 , 72 , 76 Mrs Dalloway , 87 , 145 Zamyatin, Yevgeny, 49 Orlando , 87 Žižek, Slavoj, 51