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Biographical note
Eliot Weinberger is an essayist and translator. His recent works include the National Book Critics Circle-nominated What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles; What I Heard About Iraq; and most recently, The Ghost of Birds and with Octavio Paz 11 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei He won The National Book Critics award for criticism for his translations of Borges. And PEN's first Gregory Kolovakos Award for promoting Hispanic literature in the US, and he is America's first literary writer to receive Mexico's Order of the Aztec Eagle. He lives in New York City.<i>What I Heard About Iraq</i> lays bare the false pieties and covert rapacity of the war and occupation. The result is something very special indeed.
- Hanif Kureishi,
Although Eliot Weinberger was a few blocks away from the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, his has been a rare voice of sanity on the subject ever since. Here he has harnessed his gifts as poet, translator and political commentator to produce a work of incantatory power in which the lies and misinformation about Iraq are allowed to collapse by sheer weight of accumulation.
- Amitav Ghosh,
In this remarkable piece of work, Eliot Weinberger nails the tragedy and absurdity of the War Against Terrorism. He is a master essayist, a furious thinker and an exceptionally elegant writer.
- Jenny Diski,