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/ 19 September 2003

Apes of God

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 do a disservice to such a writer, writes Derek Hook of his impressions of <i>Elizabeth Costello.</i>

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/ 5 September 2003

Exemption politics

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 <i>Power and Terror</i>, writes Derek Hook.