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Benjamin Markovits

November 2019

  • Benjamin Markovits

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: can you recommend middle-class American authors?

    Yes, but go further… there are richly rewarding literary tales from Africa and South America too
  • Christmas lights in Austin, Texas.

    Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits review – family ties

    The sequel to A Weekend in New York gets inside the Essinger clan’s heads for an enforced family gathering
  • Christmas lights in Austin, Texas.

    Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits review – protean perspective on family dynamics

    Christmas with the Essinger clan proves a pleasure and a chore in this ambitious sequel to A Weekend in New York

July 2018

  • Rafael Nadal at the US Open in 2017.

    Book of the day
    A Weekend in New York by Benjamin Markovits review – absorbing tennis drama

    A journeyman player competes in his last US Open, bringing the tensions in his Upper West Side family to the surface

June 2018

  • Lawrence Wright.

    God Save Texas by Lawrence Wright review – the future of America?

    This hymn to his complicated home state by the author of The Looming Tower is a pleasing blend of memoir, reportage and history

June 2017

  • A buggy or pram in a hallway. "There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall" according to Cyril Connolly, author and critic. Commissioned

    Point of view
    Benjamin Markovits: 'Parenthood has changed. And so has the literature that comes out of it'

    On Father’s Day a parent and novelist asks if the ‘pram in the hall’ is quite the obstacle to literary success it used to be

April 2016

  • James Shapiro at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London.

    Shakespeare biography leads James Tait Black prize shortlist

    James Shapiro’s 1606 gets nod for venerable honour alongside books by David Hare, Ruth Scurr and Sarah Knights

December 2015

  • Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, and winner of the Man Booker prize.

    Observer books of the year 2015
    The best novels of 2015

    A truly vintage year for fiction with a strong Booker, dazzling debuts and a real masterpiece from an old hand

August 2015

  • A coffee shop on Michigan Avenue in Detroit.

    You Don’t Have to Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits review – utopianism meets racial distrust in Detroit

  • The kind of novel that could still launch a career today … Eddie Hodges and Archie Moore in The Adve

    Rereading
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: how to write about race in the US

September 2011

  • Critical eye
    Critical eye: reviews roundup

    The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy, Childish Loves by Benjamin Markovits and The Opium War by Julia Lovell

August 2011

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    Childish Loves by Benjamin Markovits – review

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    Childish Loves by Benjamin Markovits – review

June 2011

  • Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift – review

    This meditation on Englishness echoes but ultimately fails to match Swift's Booker-winning Last Orders, writes Benjamin Markovits

March 2011

  • Michael Jordan shoots

    My hero
    Michael Jordan by Benjamin Markovitz

    'It's a funny measure of childhood, whether a guy you don't know wins a basketball game. But somehow Jordan's successes stand for something happy in my own life'

July 2010

  • Critical eye
    Critical eye book reviews roundup

    The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, Playing Days by Benjamin Markovits and The General by Jonathan Fenby

June 2010

  • Benjamin Markovits

    Playing Days by Benjamin Markovits

    Alex Clark is charmed by a subtle and poignant tale of a minor league basketball player

May 2010

  • Benjamin Markovits

    Once upon a life
    Once upon a life: Benjamin Markovits

    At 22, Benjamin Markovits had only one ambition: to be a professional basketball player. After a friend made a tape of him shooting hoops in Texas, he landed his first job in Germany. Training, self-doubt and loneliness defeated him and he quit after a year. But the experience launched his literary career…

January 2009

  • A Quiet Adjustment

    Review: A Quiet Adjustment by Benjamin Markovits
    A story as compelling to read as it is dazzling, says Killian Fox

August 2008

  • Handball player Daniel McMillen

    The chosen ones

    Fancy being a British Olympian in 2012? UK Sport are spending £3m to create a handball team from scratch - so, if you are tall and athletic, and don't mind living in Denmark and getting thrashed by the Faroe Islands, it could be you

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