Volume 46, Number 18 · November 18, 1999
Exile's Return
By Amos Elon
Out of Place: A Memoir
by Edward W. Said
Knopf, 295 pp., $26.95
On the first page of his memoir, Edward Said, professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia, lately president of the Modern Language Association—a man well established in American academic and intellectual life—declares that he has always had an overriding feeling of being 'out of place.'
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