Susan Alice Fischer is Professor of English at Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York, USA. She is Editor of The Literary London Journal and Co-Editor of Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education.

• Foreword - Roger MichellAcknowledgementsContributorsTimeline Introduction - Susan Alice Fischer, The City University of New York1. ‘“I Believe My Eyes”: The Transformative Cinema of Hanif Kureishi’ - Deanna Kamiel, The New School2. ‘Culture and Anarchy in Thatcher’s London: Hanif Kureishi’s Sammy and Rosie Get Laid - Peter Hitchcock, The City University of New York3. ‘“The Suburbs That Did It’: Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and Metropolitan Multicultural Fiction” - Ryan Trimm, University of Rhode Island4. ‘Hanif Kureishi’s “Better Philosophy”: From The Black Album to My Son the Fanatic’ - Susan Alice Fischer, The City University of New York5. ‘The Enigma of Abandonment: Re-thinking Hanif Kureishi’s Importance for Multiculturalism’ - Michael Perfect, Independent 6. ‘The Parallax of Ageing: Hanif Kureishi’s The Body’ - Jago Morrison, Brunel University7. ‘The Other Kureishi: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Something to Tell You’ - Geoff Boucher, Deakin University8. ‘The Last Word on Hanif Kureishi’ - Susie Thomas, Independent Interview: ‘A very serious business’: Hanif Kureishi in Conversation with Susan Alice FischerInterview: ‘An extraordinary encounter’: Stephen Frears in Conversation with Susan Alice Fischer and Deanna KamielBibliographyIndex

This collection will be valuable to researchers and students of contemporary British literature and British Asian cultural production. The new interview with Kureishi offers a blend of funny, laconic, unpretentious, and politically serious observations from the man himself, while many of the academic essays will interest Kureishi scholars because of their concern with the writer’s more recent and/or insufficiently discussed work.