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Benjamin Markovits

Articles by Benjamin Markovits

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Fiction - Out on a limb

  • 12 September 2005

Slow Man
J M Coetzee Secker & Warburg, 265pp, £16.99
ISBN 0436206110

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

Forgotten favourites - Accidental tourist

  • 29 November 2004

Amours de Voyage
Arthur Hugh Clough Lightning Source, 52pp, £11.95
ISBN 141910599X

Death by demography

  • 09 August 2004

Oblivion
David Foster Wallace Abacus, 336pp, £7.99
ISBN 0349118108

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?

Novel of the week

  • 14 July 2003

Nowhere Man
Aleksandar Hemon Picador, 256pp, £15.99
ISBN 0330393499

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

Worlds apart

  • 17 March 2003

A Distant Shore
Caryl Phillips Secker & Warburg, 312pp, £15.99
ISBN 0436205645

Novel of the week

  • 24 February 2003

You Shall Know Our Velocity
Dave Eggers Hamish Hamilton, 351pp, £16.99
ISBN 0241142288

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