Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE AUTHOR IS grateful to the nearly two dozen publications in which the pieces that constitute most of this book first appeared, in slightly different form.

“Once Upon a Life” and “Rereading” both appeared in The Observer. “Art and the Other Pakistans” appeared in Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, edited by Salima Hashmi and published by the Asia Society in New York. “When Updike Saved Me from Morrison (and Myself)” appeared in The Daily Princetonian. “In Concert, No Touching” appeared in Nerve. “International Relations,” “The Countdown,” “Are We Too Concerned That Characters Be ‘Likable’?” “Where Is the Great American Novel by a Woman?” “How Do E-Books Change the Reading Experience?” “Are the New ‘Golden Age’ TV Shows the New Novels?” “After Sixty Years, Will Pakistan Be Reborn?” and “To Fight India, We Fought Ourselves” all appeared in The New York Times. “A Home for Water Lilies” appeared under the title “I Love This Dirty Town” in The New Statesman. “Down the Tube” appeared in The Independent. “On Fatherhood” appeared in Pakistan’s Paper magazine. “It Had to Be a Sign,” “Enduring Love of the Second Person,” “Osama bin Laden’s Death,” and “Islam Is Not a Monolith” all appeared in The Guardian. “Avatar in Lahore” appeared in TAR. “Don’t Angry Me” appeared on the website of The New Yorker. “Personal and Political Intertwined” appeared in The Radio Times. “Pereira Transforms” appeared as the introduction to the English translation of Antonio Tabucchi’s Pereira Maintains, published by Canongate. “My Reluctant Fundamentalist” appeared in the “Original Essays” series on the website Powells.com. “Get Fit with Haruki Murakami” appeared in The Atlantic’s “By Heart” series. “The Usual Ally” and “Divided We Fall” appeared in the US and Asian editions of Time, respectively. “A Beginning” appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “Fear and Silence” appeared in Dawn. “Feverish and Flooded, Pakistan Can Yet Thrive” appeared in The Financial Times. “Discontent and Its Civilizations” appeared in The International Herald Tribune. “Uniting Pakistan’s Minority and Majority” appeared in The Express Tribune. “Why They Get Pakistan Wrong” and “Why Drones Don’t Help” both appeared in The New York Review of Books. Finally, “Nationalism Should Retire at Sixty-Five” appeared in The Times of India.