|aForeward -- Writing across boundaries -- The dilemma of becoming an American -- Ethnicity and American cultural identity -- Western intolerance of Islam -- Liberal democracy and the other voice -- Reason and faith -- Dullsville bums -- Conakry -- Death of literature in the age of television -- Bertolucci's Stealing beauty -- Bharati Mukherjee's Holder of the world -- Fiction writing -- Translating poetry -- Ghalib and Donne as love poets -- Index -- Comments.