Word: constrictive
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...Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, has championed "The Last Summer of Reason," writing a foreword for the new book. "We're really in a season of fundamentalist insanity in many religions," Soyinka told us. "There's a real escalation of intolerance, of the will to constrict the mind. Many people outside have been unaware of the enormity of the killings that have been taking place in Algeria, for instance, in the name of religious purity. So a book like Djaout's, which is a very pointed allegory, is something that I think is required at this...