Some of the most compelling political and theoretical issues in contemporary criticism. Editor's Note, Interviews and Strategies and Dialogues, Criticism and Feminism and the Institution, The Post-Modern Condition: The End of Politics?, Strategy and Identity and Writing, The Problem of Cultural Self-Representation, Questions of Multi-Culturalism, The Post-Colonial Critic, Postmarked Calcutta and India, Practical Politics of the Open End, The Intervention Interview, Interview with Radical Philosophy, Negotiating the Structures of Violence, The New Historicism: Political Commitment and the Postmodern Critic.