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I'm preparing (oh so slowly) a massive post on a massive book: David Goldblatt's The Ball is Round , a tome that Ray Hudson would describe as "MAGISTERIAL!" In the meantime, have a look at this interesting look at Kurdistan's halting efforts to pull together a national side, a story that would fit right in with Goldblatt's enormous reckoning of the intersection of the global game and global politics....
Baseball may be the United States' national sport - but this year, 2008, almost half of all its professional players come from overseas - and some 40 per cent of them from the Dominican Republic, which shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with Haiti. For Assignment David Goldblatt visits Haiti to report on what has become a significant export industry for this country of nine million people.
In this week's Assignment David Goldblatt travels to Israel to meet the fans of Beitar Jerusalem football club. As you'll hear in this programme the fans pride themselves on their extreme nationalist views and anti-arab chanting at matches. Beitar fans boast that an Arab never has and never will play for the club. Now under the ownership of flamboyant Russian Billionaire Arkadi Gaydamak Beitar is top...
David Goldblatt's The Ball is Round , an ambitious and laudably inclusive history of the game, weighs in at over 900 pages, and took me a few months to read, on and off. It deserves a lengthier review than most. John Foot, a noted football writer, reviewed the book shortly after it was released. Although I broadly agree with many of his comments, I can't share his gushing enthusiasm for the work as...
Have you ever considered whether good lives have to cost the earth? Well a diverse group of people have considered the question and their answers were documented in a book (with the question as the title) edited by Andrew Simms and Jo Smith. Before I started reading the book I already had an answer to the [...]
A kaleidoscope of African images and themes is a fitting backdrop for the debate the Jo'burg Art Fair, which opened to the public on Friday, has sparked about what it means to be African and an artist. The fair also has the art world buzzing about tensions between art and commerce.
Stockholm - Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide cited as one of the most influential photographers in Latin America was Thursday named winner of the 2008 Hasselblad Award. The international jury said Iturbide had during the past four decades bee...
David Goldblatt. Riverhead Trade Paperback. 992 pages. $24.95.The game we call soccer has always had its share of American aficionados. These die-hards sip a latte or an indulgent pint at their local bar in a state of lingering bemusement. They wonder why their ranks stay so small and parochial. Alas, the connoisseurs may now find deliverance in the outstanding new soccer history "The Ball Is Round:...
For all you bookworms and historians out there, here's an opportunity to add some serious girth to your footie library. TOR has a few copies of David Goldblatt's colossal & comprehensive soccer history tome, The Ball is Round , and I'm going to give them away to 3 lucky winners. One of the most thorough books out there on world football, this sucker weighs in at a shelf-buckling 992+ pages...basically...
Today I had to return my hardback copy of David Goldblatt's The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football to the library because I’d had it for a year and they wouldn't let me renew it again. My heart sank as I deposited it in the return box, an inestimably useful synthesis of world [...]
Shit man it's like Reading Rainbow around here today…you'd swear I was pre-Star Trek/"Geordi LaForge" Lavar Burton with all the book babble I am inclined to throw out today. I refrain from posting a book piece for 4 months then suddenly I start getting the itch & content to get all literary. What a weird world. So since the Love & Blood post this a.m. I've found 2 more books worth mentioning today....
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David Goldblatt... At Kevin Kwanele’s Takwaito Barber, Lansdowne Road. Khayelitsha, Cape Town in the time of AIDS (2007, Archival pigment ink digitally printed on cotton rag paper, Edition of 10). From Works by David Goldblatt at Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town, SA. "...Born in Randfontein in 1930, Goldblatt has been documenting the changing political landscape of South Africa for more than...
