Derek Hook

JM Coetzee’s <i>Slow Man</i> clearly exhibits a greater degree of moral symmetry than is typically the case with the author, writes Derek Hook.

The last of his books to be published in his lifetime, the late Edward Said’s last offering makes striking non-psychoanalytic use of psychoanalytic writing. Derek Hook gets some…

By now JM Coetzee’s fiction oeuvre is so well established that it cannot but be a matrix through which any new contribution is read. This reading the new through the old seems to…

Terrorism of the weak against the powerful is not addressed without confronting the more extreme terrorism of the powerful against the weak. This is the thesis of Noam Chomsky’s…

In this latest collection of interviews, <b>Edward W Said</b> forces us to examine the politics of identity that leads to seperatism and xenophobia, writes Derek Hook.

Slavoj Zizek is Western academia’s newest intellectual hero; the <i>enfant terrible</i> of cultural studies, writes Derek Hook.