Books by Olivier Roy

I have been reading Olivier Roy’s new book The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms .  It is the best book on culture in years, and if you enjoy Martin Gurri and Bruno Macaes you should try this one too.  This book actually got me excited at the theoretical level.

2. Olivier Roy, In Search of the Lost Orient: An Interview .  There should be a book like this for every substantive thinker, namely a very long, book-length interview with frank rather than perfunctory answers.  The dialog covers Afghanistan, Yemen, 1968 Paris and radicalism, China, “political Islam,” and women (ahem), among other topics.  Recommended.