An anthology of Mike Marqusee's selected articles discussing Bob Dylan, the game of cricket, American Civil rights, Jewish identity, William Blake’s art, nationalism, Big Pharma, Labour Party politics, the films of John Ford, Flamenco music, the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, the BDS campaign, Muhammad Ali and Italian Renaissance painting amongst many other topics explored with Marqusee's acute, erude and kaleidoscopic writings.
Mar 1, 2008
Mukul Kesevan reviews If I Am Not for Myself BIBLIO, March-April 2008 Mike Marqusee’s range as a writer is prodigious. The first book of his that I read was Anyone But England, a brilliant materialist history of cricket in England, one of the best books ever written on the game. I remember thinking then, how… Read more
Feb 24, 2008
Published in The Guardian and The Hindu What can the masterpieces of Christian art mean to the non-Christian? Can those of us without a Christian background or Christian convictions actually commune with the spirit of an artist whose faith and ideology we do not share? As an art-loving Jewish atheist I’ve often asked myself these… Read more
Jan 27, 2008
Versions of the article below appeared in The Guardian and The Hindu This week marks the 40th anniversary of an event that seemed to turn the world upside down. In the early hours of 31 January 1968, soldiers of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam and the Army of North Vietnam launched what came… Read more
Jan 10, 2008
The Guardian, Comment is free 10 January In the angry contentions gripping world cricket following the Sydney Test between India and Australia, a number of disparate issues have become intertwined. To find a way through the thicket of questions raised by the imbroglio, it’s necessary to disentangle them. It’s also necessary to get beyond the… Read more
Jan 8, 2008
The Guardian, Comment is Free 8 January Harbhajan Singh’s three match-ban from Test cricket for his alleged on-field racist abuse of Australian Andrew Symonds has elicited howls of outrage from Indian cricketers, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) and the Indian media. This morning the story is in banner headlines on the front page of every… Read more
Dec 3, 2007
It is for his dignity as much as his wizardry that we should salute the Tamil’s historic feat December 3, 2007 The Guardian By the time you read this, Muttiah Muralitharan is likely to have become the highest Test wicket taker in cricket’s long history. It’s an extraordinary, heartwarming achievement that will be celebrated at… Read more
