Step across this line : collected nonfiction 1992-2002 / Salman Rushdie.

Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: Out of Kansas -- The Best of Young British Novelists -- Angela Carter -- Beirut Blues -- Arthur Miller at Eighty -- In Defense of the Novel, Yet Again -- Notes on Writing and the Nation -- Influence -- Adapting Midhight's Children -- Reservoir Frogs -- Heavy Threads -- In the Voodoo Lounge -- Rock Music-A Sleeve Note -- U2 -- An Alternative Career -- On Leavened Bread -- On Being Photographed -- Crash -- The People's Game -- Farming Ostriches -- A Commencement Address -- "Imagine There's No Heaven" -- "Damme, This Is the Oriental Scene for You!" -- India's Fiftieth Anniversary -- Gandhi, Now -- The Taj Mahal -- The Babumama -- A Dream of Glorious Return -- II. MESSAGES FROM THE PLAGUE YEARS -- III. COLUMNS -- December 1998: Three Leaders -- January 1999: The Millennium -- February 1999: Ten Years of the Fatwa -- March 1999: Globalization -- April 1999: Rock Music -- May 1999: Moron of the Year -- June 1999: Kashmir -- July 1999: Northern Ireland -- August 1999:Kosovo -- September 1999: Darwin in Kansas -- October 1999: Edward Said -- November 1999: Pakistan -- December 1999: Islam and the West -- January 2000: Terror Versus Security -- February 2000: J6rg Haider -- March 2000: Amadou Diallo -- April 2000: Elian Gonzlez -- May 2000: J. M. Coetzee -- June 2000: Fiji -- July 2000: Sport -- August 2000: Two Crashes -- September 2000: Senator Lieberman -- October 2000: The Human Rights Act -- November 2000: Going to Electoral College -- December 2000: A Grand Coalition? -- January 2001: How the Grinch Stole America -- February 2001: Sleaze Is Back -- March 2001: Crouching Striker, Hidden Danger -- April 2001: It Wasn't Me -- May 2001: Abortion in India -- June 2001: Reality TV -- July 2001: The Release of the Budger Killers -- August 2001: Arundhati Roy -- September 2001: Telluride -- October 2001: The Attacks on America -- November 2001: Not About Islam? -- February 2002: Anti-Americanism -- March 2002; God in Gujarat -- IV STEP ACROSS THIS LINE.