Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist

Observer

Tariq Ali has not lost the passion and vim which made him a symbol of the spirit of '68 ... has not seen fit to join forces with the terminally cynical, or set up a graven god that can be accused of failing

- Christopher Hitchens,

Vintage Ali: literate rabble-rousing mixed with entertaining sniping, smart aperçus, and endless provocations.

Kirkus Reviews

The revolutionary upsurge of 1968-1975 jump-hopped continents with ease but finally petered out. What happened after is the subject of You Can't Please All. Tariq Ali recounts a life committed to writing and cultural interventions. An eyewitness in Moscow to the fall of the Soviet Union, he was caught up in the intellectual excitement that had gripped the country. In Porto Alegre, Hugo Chávez invited him to visit Caracas, and the two men developed a striking friendship.Post-2001, as a founding member of the Stop the War Coalition, he became a fierce critic of the War on Terror, visiting many US cities with surprising regularity to engage in debate and discussion, inaugurating a new phase of political activism. Evident in his work is the integral part politics plays in his life. He is one of the most sought-after socialist and anti-imperialist public intellectuals on most continents.Underlying the narrative is a chain of anecdotes, reflections, jottings and storytelling. The book explores his work for the theatre and film, as well as his fiction, including the acclaimed Islam Quintet. There are pen portraits of friends and comrades such as Edward Said, Derek Jarman, Richard Ingrams, Benazir Bhutto, Mary-Kay Wilmers, and the intellectuals who founded and relaunched New Left Review: E. P. Thompson, Perry Anderson and Robin Blackburn.The book also contains a moving family portrait, describing how his parents met and lived during the early years of Pakistan.
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A new memoir from renowned political activist and author of Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties
Preface: Being in the WorldChronologyIntroduction: Spy Cops - On Being Spied On for Fifty YearsBOOK I: THE END OF THE CENTURYPart 1: Before the Fall1. Southall 19792. The Thatcher Consensus3. Farewell to the Fourth4. Off to India5. CLR6. 'We Have an Editor!'7. Bandung File8. Private Eye9. Russia10. Moscow Gold11. Disrupting Heavenly PeacePart 2: Friends and Comrades12. Jarman13. Ho Chi Minh14. At M-K's15. Gott and the Guardian16. Ernest Mandel17. Saving the Review18. Collateral Damage19. Art of Spying20. RenewalsBOOK II: A FAMILY INTERLUDEThe 'Noble and Warlike' Khattars of WahFamily OriginsFamily LifeA Family in JeopardyMy FatherAftermathBOOK III: THE PROLONGED TWENTIETH CENTURYPart 1A New MillenniumIraq at the Centre of the WorldSo Was It Worth It?Mojitos in PyongyangThe Boulder Interview: Palestine and Israel (2004)Remembering Edward SaidWas Hugo Chávez Murdered?Havana Diary (2005)Al Jazeera, Al Bolivar, TelesurFellow Traveller: Oliver StoneIn War There Is a Need for TranslatorsPart 2The Case against Tony BlairThe Family MilibandThe New Left Review at FiftyThe Charlie Hebdo MassacreWith Satyajit RayThe Bhuttos of LarkanaA Painter of His TimeCasteismCome DancingThe New Adventures of Don QuixoteEnglish QuestionsThe End of Cricket?Kings and QueensBOOK IV: JOTTINGSIntroduction: A Homage to Lu XunParchment Does Burn (1989)My Dinner with Mambety (1995)Better Red than Wed (1996)A Man without Instincts (1997)Marx on Suicide (2001)Al Jazeera (2002)In Tripoli (2006)Diyarbakir (2006)Return to Cochabamba (2007)Murder in the Family (2008)The Nobel War Prize (2010)Against the Extreme Centre (2011)Blitz Spirit: Alex Cockburn (2011)Pissing on Insurgents (2012)Lincoln in His Lover's Nightgown (2012)'Indian Army Rape Us' (2013)Ships in the Night (2013)A Tear Gas Canister, Made in Brazil, Used in Turkey (2013)Gaza: A Disgrace to the World (2014)Benedict Anderson: An Irishman Abroad (2015)The Quintet (1992-2016)Mr Ford's Hacienda (2018)'I'm Glad Edward Said Is Dead' (2022)Adieu Boris, Adieu (2022)Worstward Ho (2022)Celebrations (2023)A Missed Churchill Footnote (2023)Postscript: The Dying PalestinianEpilogue: The Ashes of GazaAcknowledgementsIndex
Les mer
Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist
A new memoir from renowned political activist and author of Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties
New memoir by leading political radical of our times: likely to get widespread media attention,For readers of contemporary British politics and autobiography

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781804290903
Publisert
2024-11-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
900 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
816

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Biographical note

Tariq Ali has written more than two-dozen books on world history and politics-the most recent of which are The Extreme Centre, The Dilemmas of Lenin and The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan, Winston Churchill-as well as the novels of his Islam Quintet and scripts for the stage and screen. He is a long-standing member of the Editorial Committee of New Left Review and lives in London.