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.
Apr 12, 2006
The clash between multiculturalists and integrationists hides the hard issues of injustice The Guardian, April 12 The punch line goes like this: “Because he worked in the family business, lived at home till he was 30 and thought his mother was a virgin.” When I first heard it, that was the answer to the question:… Read more
Mar 20, 2006
The Guardian (weblog), 17 March In today’s Guardian John Mann MP rightly urges us to “to differentiate between hostility to Israel and aggression against Jewish institutions and people”. But this is precisely what he himself fails to do. His article is yet another attempt to hang the “anti-semitism” tag on critics of Israel and thereby muddy the waters… Read more
Mar 14, 2006
The occupation of Iraq is an ongoing disaster – and the first thing we have to do to help Iraqis is end it. “Comment is free”, The Guardian, 14 March Three years ago, at one of the huge demonstrations that preceded the invasion of Iraq, I ran into a 16-year-old friend, visibly excited by the… Read more
Mar 12, 2006
Published in Following On: Cricket and National Identity in the Postcolonial Age, edited by Stephen Wagg (Routledge, 2005) Long before it was a global game, cricket was an imperial game. At least, that was how it was seen by the rulers of the British empire, in Whitehall and at Lord’s. Their subjects sometimes saw it differently,… Read more
Mar 11, 2006
The Guardian, 11 March Review of The Match by Romesh Gunesekera (Bloomsbury) Two cricket matches bookend Romesh Gunesekera’s new novel. The first is a local, one-off, comically amateur challenge between expats in the Philippines in 1970. The second is an all-star televised clash at the Oval in 2002. Despite cricket’s longevity and aura of aestheticism,… Read more
