Author:Cullen Murphy
From Cullen Murphy, editor at large of Vanity Fair, God's Jury is a chilling and powerful account of how the techniques used by the Spanish Inquisition created our modern world.
For centuries states have used their power to censor, watch, manipulate and punish. God's Jury argues that the Inquisition - the Catholic body that existed for over 700 years - is not a medieval oddity, but is intrinsically bound up with modernity. From Vatican archives to Guantánamo Bay and the Third Reich, Cullen Murphy shows how the Inquisition's techniques - record-keeping, bureaucracy and a terrifying sense of certainty - are now standard operating procedure, and that the battle between private conscience and outside forces is the central contest of the modern era.
Cullen Murphy is Vanity Fair's editor at large and the author of Are We Rome? and The Word According to Eve. He was previously the managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly.
'Lucid and provocative, blistering, cogent and powerful ... A persuasive argument that we still live in the world the inquisition made - a world of us and them, of moral self-righteousness and intellectual intolerance' Sunday Times
'Beguiling and horrifying ... a book rich in stories and imaginative connections' John Cornwell, author of Hitler's Pope
'A grand and scary tour of inquisitorial moments, racing back and forth in history from Torquemada to Dick Cheney' Adam Gopnik, New Yorker
'A dark but riveting tale, told with luminous grace' Michael Sandel, author of Justice and What Money Can't Buy
'God's Jury is a reminder, and we need to be constantly reminded, that the most dangerous people in the world are the righteous' Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down and Guest of the Ayatollah
Lucid and provocative, blistering, cogent and powerful ... A persuasive argument that we still live in the world the inquisition made - a world of us and them, of moral self-righteousness and intellectual intolerance
—— Sunday TimesA grand and scary tour of inquisitorial moments, racing back and forth in history from Torquemada to Dick Cheney
—— Adam Gopnik , New YorkerWitty ... deeply serious ... incisive
—— Patricia Cohen , New York TimesFrank and…more gripping than any spy story…the prose makes for powerful reading... He is a great writer who has been brave.
—— Margaret Drabble , ObserverAn intimate tale of fathers and sons, of the beginnings and ends of marriages, of friendships and betrayals. At the same time, Joseph Anton is a large-scale spectacle of political and cultural conflicts.
—— New York Times Book ReviewThis is tense thriller even if we know the outcome
—— Fiona Wilson , The TimesAbsorbing… Rushdie is compelling here
—— Robert Collins , Sunday Times (Culture)Describes the painful process by which a human being becomes a symbol
—— Sunday Telegraph (Seven)Sprawling, intimate, surreal, it exerts a mesmeric hold
—— Boyd Tonkin , IndependentPoignant and honest
—— Big Issue in the NorthJoseph Anton conveys a clear and shaming picture of his ordeal… The reader is fully on Rushdie’s side.
—— Pankaj Mishra , GuardianA frank and zestful memoir...a precious historical document and an immersive page-turning read...pacey, intimate, surreal, whipped along by love and scorn and overflowing with tall tales...it exerts a mesmeric hold with high-octane storytelling.
—— Boyd Tonkin , IndependentThe book speaks to the heart, and to conscience.
—— John Lloyd , Financial TimesAn indispensable text that needs no description.
—— Margaret Drabble , New StatesmanThe most gripping, moving and entertaining literary memoir I have ever read.
—— Amanda Craig , Independent on SundayThe story Rushdie tells is never less than gripping.
—— Colin McCabe , New StatesmanA magnificent new memoir.
—— Matthew d’Ancona , Evening StandardThis moving, sometimes irritating, often beautiful and blissfully funny memoir is also a resounding manifesto, reminding us that novelists have a right and duty to tackle the most controversial subjects.
—— Jake Kerridge , Sunday ExpressHis big, bold, controversial memoir…matches Rushdie’s confident personality.
—— Ian Finlayson , The Times[A book that] rattles with the terror of the moment.
—— Graeme Wood , Barnes & Noble ReviewThe big book of the week was Salman Rushdie's memoir Joseph Anton
—— GuardianIt’s an extraordinary document.
—— Anthony Cummins , MetroRushdie says art outlasts persecution, but artists may not. A look at how this dichotomy has played out in his life.
—— Salil Tripathi , Live MintJoseph Anton is as riveting for the small vignettes as the big, historical sweep.
—— Ginny Dougary , Financial TimesReads like a thriller...painfully true.
—— Robert McCrum , ObserverHe is compelling here...grippingly reconstructing his long years in hiding.
—— Robert Collins , Sunday Times[N]ot many Americans had heard of Rushdie until Valentines Day, 1989, when the dying Ayatollah Khomeni of Iran issued the infamous fatwa calling for Rushdie’s head... Rushdie spent most of the next decade in hiding, accompanied by armed British agents. He’s now published his account of that stranger-than-fiction time: Joseph Anton: A Memoir.
—— Kurt Andersen , Studio 360Aside from the vivid, splendidly told account of his childhood and family background, Rushdie's book charts in, fascinating, grimly humourous detail, the shadowy half-life he lived until that fatwah was lifted on March 27, 2002.
—— Paddy Kehoe , RTE Ten
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