Benjamin Markovits
Articles by Benjamin Markovits
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Sport
Sport - Benjamin Markovits
- 30 January 2006
Overheard on a bus, two boys show how football talk can also be a touching proof of friendship
Sport
Sport - Benjamin Markovits can't get worked up about darts
- 23 January 2006
Darts is competitive sport pared down to its essentials, but without much to cheer for
Sport
Sport - Benjamin Markovits suffers for his triumph
- 16 January 2006
It's the suffering that gives us the right to claim a victory when it comes
Books
Fiction - Out on a limb
- 12 September 2005
Slow Man J M Coetzee Secker & Warburg, 265pp, £16.99 ISBN 0436206110
Books
The horrors of history. A novel of post-9/11 trauma is let down by its obsessive whimsy, finds Benjamin Markovits
- 06 June 2005
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer Hamish Hamilton, 326pp, £14.99 ISBN 024114213X
Books
Forgotten favourites - Accidental tourist
- 29 November 2004
Amours de Voyage Arthur Hugh Clough Lightning Source, 52pp, £11.95 ISBN 141910599X
Books
Death by demography
- 09 August 2004
Oblivion David Foster Wallace Abacus, 336pp, £7.99 ISBN 0349118108
World Affairs
The allegiance that I can't quite pledge
- 17 November 2003
Identity - Benjamin Markovits, once described by a schoolmate as half-American, half-English and half-German, grew up under many flags. Which one now commands his loyalty?
Books
Novel of the week
- 14 July 2003
Nowhere Man Aleksandar Hemon Picador, 256pp, £15.99 ISBN 0330393499
Poetry
A load of Pollocks. Benjamin Markovits on a fictional recasting of the postwar New York art scene
- 05 May 2003
Seek My Face John Updike Hamish Hamilton, 276pp, £16.99 ISBN 0241141982
