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There are 28 critical essays on The Moor's Last Sigh.

Critical Essays on The Moor's Last Sigh
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Critical Review by J. M. Coetzee
3,840 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following review, Coetzee presents a deep analysis of The Moor's Last Sigh, noting its multilayered construction.
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Critical Review by Michael Wood
3,033 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following review, Wood presents an in-depth analysis of Rushdie's career, culminating with The Moor's Last Sigh.
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Critical Review by James Wood
2,873 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following review, Wood offers a mixed assessment of The Moor's Last Sigh.
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Critical Review by Orhan Pamuk
2,341 words, approx. 8 pages
In the following review, Pamuk considers Rushdie's treatment of his homeland in his fiction, most recently in The Moor's Last Sigh.
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Critical Review by Jessica Hagedorn
1,790 words, approx. 6 pages
Below, Hagedorn offers a positive review of The Moor's Last Sigh.
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Critical Review by Norman Rush
1,555 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following review, Rush praises The Moor's Last Sigh as an apt response to the tyrannical reaction to The Satanic Verses.
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Critical Essay by Nina Barnton
1,511 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following essay, based on an interview with the author, Barnton describes Rushdie's life since the fatwa.
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Critical Review by Michael Dirda
1,436 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following review, Dirda finds The Moor's Last Sigh further evidence of his contention that Rushdie is among the world's greatest writers.
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Critical Review by Gail Caldwell
1,330 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Caldwell describes The Moor's Last Sigh as "a parable of modern India."
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Critical Review by Richard Eder
1,267 words, approx. 4 pages
Below, Eder presents a mixed review of The Moor's Last Sigh.
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Critical Review by Michiko Kakutani
1,182 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Kakutani describes the ways in which the story and characters of The Moor's Last Sigh relate the author's own views of his native country.
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Critical Review by Aamer Hussein
1,159 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Hussein relates the plot of The Moor's Last Sigh.
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Critical Review by Sara Maitland
1,089 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Maitland suggests that The Moor's Last Sigh suffers from the fallout of the fatwa imposed upon its author.
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Critical Review by James Bowman
1,072 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following mixed review, Bowman asserts that The Moor's Last Sigh reads as if the author wrote it simply to prove that he could, and predicts that the book will offend Hindus as The Satanic Verses offended Muslims.
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Critical Review by Linton Weeks
1,010 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, discusses Rushdie's public promotion of The Moor's Last Sigh.
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Critical Essay by John F. Burns
966 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following essay, Burns describes reaction in India to The Moor's Last Sigh.
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Interview by John Blades
943 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following interview, Blades queries Rushdie on religion and the effect of the Ayatollah Khomeini's death sentence on his writing.
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Critical Review by Alan Ryan
934 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Ryan describes The Moor's Last Sigh as "an extraordinary act of the imagination."
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Critical Review by Paul Gray
866 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Gray finds The Moor's Last Sigh's "leisurely wordiness is a mark of Rushdie's mastery."
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Critical Review by John Bemrose
797 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following negative review of The Moor's Last Sigh, Bemrose remarks that "most of the novel reads like the vision of a harried mind that has lost touch with the pace and amplitude of ordinary life."
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Critical Review by Newsweek
782 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, the critic describes The Moor's Last Sigh as Rushdie's "passionate, often furious love letter to the country of his birth."
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Critical Review by Merle Rubin
760 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Rubin remarks that "the Moor's outlandish friends, family, and enemies may begin to look a little more familiar than we'd like" in The Moor's Last Sigh.
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Critical Review by Bruce King
640 words, approx. 2 pages
In the following review, King offers a mixed review of The Moor's Last Sigh, contending that Rushdie “always manages to write powerfully about the defining issues of our time.”
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Critical Review by Publishers Weekly
522 words, approx. 2 pages
Below, the critic offers a positive assessment of The Moor's Last Sigh.
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Critical Review by Nancy Wigston
355 words, approx. 1 pages
Below, Wigston offers a positive review of the audio version of The Moor's Last Sigh.
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Critical Essay by Paul Gray
277 words, approx. 1 pages
In the following essay, based on an interview with the author, Gray discusses the controversial nature of Rushdie's writing.
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Critical Review by Phoebe-Lou Adams
250 words, approx. 1 pages
Below, Adams presents a positive review of The Moor's Last Sigh.
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Critical Review by Brad Hooper
245 words, approx. 1 pages
In the following review, Hooper describes The Moor's Last Sigh as "a marvelously wrought novel, guaranteed to entrance."


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