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In this address delivered at The Sydney Institute, 11 April 2006, Malouf looks at various forms of fundamentalism and their relationship to literature. He discusses a wide range of English and European writers, examining the relation between writing and politics, a subject that is profoundly important for understanding works like Remembering Babylon and his novella about terrorism, Child's Play.