Mike Marqusee
Mike Marqusee (/ˈmɑːrkəsi/;[1] 27 January 1953 – 13 January 2015[2]) was an American writer, journalist and political activist in London.
Marqusee's first published work was the essay "Turn Left at Scarsdale", written when he was a sixteen-year-old high school student in New York and included in the 1970 collection "High School Revolutionaries".[3]
Marqusee, who described himself as a "
Marqusee was the editor of
Marqusee's partner was the barrister Liz Davies.[8] He died in January 2015, aged 61, of multiple myeloma.[9]
"Both in the eloquence of his writing and the deep humanism of his vision, Mike Marqusee stands shoulder to shoulder with the spirits of Isaac Deutscher and Edward Said." – Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz.
Sports writing
An ardent sports fan, Marqusee won considerable renown for his work on cricket. War Minus the Shooting, his book on the
Partial bibliography
- Slow Turn (Sphere, 1988) ISBN 978-0-7474-0120-9
- Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Kinnock’s Labour Party (co-author with Richard Heffernan) (ISBN 978-0-86091-561-4
- War Minus the Shooting: a journey through South Asia during cricket’s World Cup (Mandarin, 1997). ISBN 978-0-7493-2333-2
- Chimes of Freedom: the Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art (ISBN 978-1-56584-825-2
- Anyone but England: An Outsider Looks at English Cricket (ISBN 978-1-84513-084-8
- Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (Verso Books, 2005). ISBN 978-1-84467-527-2
- Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the Sixties (ISBN 978-1-58322-686-5.
- "Imperial whitewash - feelgood versions of British history are blinding us to the ways in which we are even now repeating it", The Guardian, 31 July 2006[12]
- If I Am Not for Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew (Verso, 2008). An extract appeared in The Guardian.[13]
- "Why I became British" (The Guardian, 16 February 2010)[14]
- "I don't need a war to fight my cancer" (The Guardian, 28 December 2009) [15]
- Street Music: Poems (Clissold Books, 2012).
- The Price of Experience: Writings on Living with Cancer (OR Books, 2014)
- "Fifty years of Bob Dylan's stark challenge to liberal complacency" (The Guardian, February 2014).[16]
References
- ^ Mukul Kesevan, "Stumbling out of Zionism."
- ^ Quinn, Ben (14 January 2015). "Mike Marqusee, journalist, activist and author, dies aged 61". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- OCLC 65760.
- ^ "The Price of Experience: Writings on Living with Cancer". Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ^ "A tribute to Mike Marqusee on behalf of Left Unity | Left Unity". leftunity.org. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
- ^ Iraq Occupation Focus
- ISBN 978-1844679980.
- ^ Mike Marqusee "Ten years on: a comment on the British SWP", mikemarqusee.co.uk, 10 January 2013
- ^ "Mike Marqusee 1953-2015". Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ^ Cricinfo. 23 August 2008. (accessed December 12, 2008).
- ^ Duncan Campbell "Stumped by curveballs", The Guardian, 19 January 2009
- ^ "Imperial whitewash - feelgood versions of British history are blinding us to the ways in which we are even now repeating it", The Guardian, 31 July 2006.
- ^ "The first time I was called a self-hating Jew", The Guardian, 4 March 2008.
- ^ "Why I became British", The Guardian, 16 February 2010.
- ^ "I don't need a war to fight my cancer", The Guardian, 28 December 2009.
- ^ "Fifty years of Bob Dylan's stark challenge to liberal complacency", The Guardian, February 2014.
External links
- Mike Marqusee's homepage
- Colin Robinson, Mike Marqusee obituary, The Guardian, 15 January 2015.
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