The Selected Works of Edward Said: 1966–2006 (Paperback)

A writer who helps us to understand who we are and what we must do if we are to aspire to be moral agents, not servants of power - Noam Chomsky

What Said stands for - critical intelligence, high art and the preservation of the language - must be at the centre of our lives - Hanif Kureishi

I was dependent on his voice ... A necessary voice as well as an eloquent and powerful one. Particularly now, it seems critical that he’d weigh in on things, critique things. He’s sui generis - Toni Morrison

Edward Said was an intellectual with a passion for justice, and he allowed nothing to deter him in its pursuit - Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The great public intellectual in late twentieth century United States of America - Cornel West

Said challenges and stimulates our thinking in every area - Washington Post

Beautifully patterned and passionately argued - New Statesman

Edward Said belongs to that small band of American intellectuals who talk sense (and write beautifully) about the outside world - Guardian

Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious - Observer

No-one studying the relations between the West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said's work - New York Times Book Review

Said is a brilliant and unique amalgam of scholar, aesthete and political activist, an inspiring role model for a younger generation seeking their cultural identity - Camille Paglia

Magnificently eloquent, lucid, judicious - Guardian

Edward Said helps us to understand who we are and what we must do if we are to aspire to be moral agents, not servants of power - Noam Chomsky

Magisterial - Terry Eagleton

One of the leading thinkers of the age - New York Observer

Probably the best-known intellectual in the world - Tony Judt, The Nation