Power Politics.

• Author: Runyan, Curtis
• Position: New and Noteworthy

Power Politics, by Arundhati Roy (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2001). In her new collection of essays, Booker Prize winning author Arundhati Roy rescues from obscurity a number of difficult issues that have been neglected by the international media corps since September 11. She questions whether it is possible for terrorism to be conquered by brutal force and war; exposes corporate efforts to privatize water, electricity, and other resources by eliminating public oversight; and challenges the global regime of free trade in which, she says, "life is profit."

The title essay, "Power Politics" carefully deconstructs the corporate colonization of public resources that all too frequently leaves citizens footing the bill for...