"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 "Entertaining, politically engaged . a superbly bracing world tour." --Stuart Jeffries, Guardian "Fascinating reading . an autobiography that matters." --Chris Bambery, Counterfire "Ali can be refreshingly funny, gossipy and personable, just the activist you would want to sit down and have a chat with . a great new year read.

" --Steven Andrew, Morning Star "A great read . [Ali] has always got something insightful and interesting to say." --Dave Kellaway, Anti-Capitalist Resistance "[A] glimpse of the perils and benefits of being one of the world's best-known left-wing activists and intellectuals" --Andy Beckett, London Review of Books "To escape . with your principles mostly intact, your rage undimmed - that too is a kind of virtue, and its own monument." --James Robins, Times Literary Supplement "[Ali's] range is extraordinary, moving from muck-raking exposures to Marxist theory; from boisterous satire to a sweet and gentle humour on his parents' romantic elopement . a joy to read." --Sheila Rowbotham, Red Pepper "Tariq Ali is in a league of his own as a public intellectual and Marxist political activist with special expertise in South Asia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He has more than a knack for making his own fascination with a subject contagious.

Ali has maintained a kind of immutable persona but a mind that can't stay still. Autobiography is a topic terrifically suited to his many gifts." --Alan Wald, Against the Current.