Granta magazine’s ‘What We Think of America’, published in April 2002, was a prescient reflection of the USA’s deepening political unpopularity among people outside its own borders. But what do Americans themselves think of their country’s new imperialism - and of the world it rules? Do they know?

With contributions by:Edmund White

James Buchan

James Kelman

Joy Williams

Luc Sante

Paul Fussell

Todd McEwen

Nell Freudenberger

Martin Rowson

Paul Theroux

Chalmers Johnson.