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Nawal El Saadawi, 'unputdownable' Egyptian novelist and campaigner for women's rights, talks about events that contributed to her new volume of autobiography, Walking Through Fire; she has been censored, fired from a ministerial job, and put on an Islamic fundamentalist death list but still lives much of the time in Cairo. Plus: a review of David Gilmour's book, The Long Recessional: the Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling; and Suzan-Lori Parks becomes the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama with her play Topdog/Underdog.