Benjamin Markovits

Articles by Benjamin Markovits

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Touched by time

  • 23 April 2009

Brooklyn Colm Tóibín Viking, 256pp, £17.99

A new global game?

  • 15 January 2009

Obama and Sport

The boys of summer

  • 21 August 2006

My friend and I dressed and ran out on to the glittering court

Do the decent thing

  • 07 August 2006

Why back an underdog, asks Benjamin Markovits, if you know it's hopeless?

Injuring time

  • 24 July 2006

The first thing a sportsman learns is how to hurt others

Sport - Benjamin Markovits learns to lose

  • 05 June 2006

There is an art to being a good loser, but master it too well and you're lost

Sport - Benjamin Markovits wants a record to stand

  • 29 May 2006

At 41, Barry Bonds is stretching towards a last great record. Most people want him to fail

Sport - Benjamin Markovits misses a hoop

  • 22 May 2006

A missed hoop, a scuffed shot . . . It's all too painful, the moment that can never be rerun

Sport - Benjamin Markovits wants sports on Newsnight Review

  • 06 February 2006

As with artists, the success of most athletes comes from their skill in ringing the changes

Sport - Benjamin Markovits

  • 30 January 2006

Overheard on a bus, two boys show how football talk can also be a touching proof of friendship

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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