Archives / Members-only Kaplan’s savage Orientalism The senior US journalist Robert Kaplan is well-connected and famous, a master of prose. He is versed in wrapping his international forays with word-pictures of place, person and context. His By Michael Roberts / 1 Jan 2010
Cover / Members-only Whine, or play cricket In an atmosphere of heightened militant threats, continuing to play cricket might just be a way to counter the paranoia. By Michael Roberts / 5 Jan 2009
Cover / Members-only The Ceylonese origins of Lankan cricket The state has decreed volleyball Sri Lanka’s ‘national game’, but the citizens, of course, know it to be otherwise. By Michael Roberts / 9 Jul 2007