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An Ode to Chelsea Gray: Mac Crane In Praise of the Poetics of Basketball

An Ode to Chelsea Gray: Mac Crane In Praise of the Poetics of Basketball

“When I watch her, I feel like I’m witnessing something beyond me, something heavenly and incomprehensible.”

By Mac Crane | May 13, 2025

Not Like Other Dykes: On Femininity, Basketball, and the Caitlin Clark Effect

Not Like Other Dykes: On Femininity, Basketball, and the Caitlin Clark Effect

Mac Crane Examines What It Means to Perform Identity on the Court

By Mac Crane | June 10, 2024

The Shared Language of the Game: Marisa Crane on Trying Out for Pro Basketball

The Shared Language of the Game: Marisa Crane on Trying Out for Pro Basketball

When I’m Not Writing, a Series About Writers and Their Hobbies

By Mac Crane | January 30, 2023

Marisa Crane on the Finer Points of Experimental Fiction

Marisa Crane on the Finer Points of Experimental Fiction

“The experimental form should relate to and enhance the themes and narrative—not distract from it.”

By Mac Crane | January 19, 2023

Reaching for the Joy of Our Unborn Child

Reaching for the Joy of Our Unborn Child

Marisa Crane on Cycles of Loss and Expectation

By Mac Crane | July 14, 2020

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