• Sports

    Sports

    Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

    Mark Kriegel on Tyson’s Unstable Childhood, Lorna Mae, and the Fighter’s Historic Obsession

     
    By Mark Kriegel  June 4, 2025
    Sports History

    Chronicle of a Hard-Won Defeat: Steve Prefontaine’s Olympic Debut

    By Brendan O’Meara  June 2, 2025
    Basketball

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

    By Mac Crane  May 13, 2025
    Surfing

    Writing (and Riding) the Waves: Inside the History of “Surf Lit”

    By Dan Reiter  May 1, 2025
    Sports History

    How Baseball Shaped Black Communities in Reconstruction-Era America

    By Gerald Early  May 1, 2025
    Coming of Age

    “Indian Hockey Kicks Ass.” On Finding Meaning in Another Nation’s Pastime

    By Kyle Edwards  April 21, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    Here are a few things that are getting us through the week.

    By Brittany Allen  April 4, 2025
    The Writing Life

    How Tennis Helped Me Manage the Competitive Beast That Was Ruining My Writing

    By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya  March 27, 2025
    Basketball

    From Child Prodigy to King of the Court: How Luka Dončić Became a Basketball Icon

    By Tim MacMahon  March 27, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Four Great Sports Books That Go Way Beyond the Game

    S.L. Price Recommends Frederick Exley, Mark Harris, Buzz Bissinger and More

    By S. L. Price  June 3, 2025
    Nonfiction

    From Bowie to Baseball to Bitcoin: Ten Nonfiction Books to Check Out in March

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2025
    College Football

    American College Football Couldn’t Exist Without Structural Coercion

    By Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva  January 17, 2025
    The Hub

    Is an NFL player reading a book on the sidelines a win for books?

    By James Folta  January 13, 2025
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    Because Facts Still Matter

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Basketball

    An Eye On the Court: Chronicling 40 Years of NBA Photography

    By Dave McMenamin  November 5, 2024
    Sports

    Nazem Kadri on Becoming a Brown Muslim Hockey Star in a Very White Sport

    By Nazem Kadri  October 28, 2024
    craft advice

    What Romance Writing Shares With Sports Journalism

    By Jamie Harrow  September 27, 2024
    Queer History

    Taking Up Space: When the Gay Games Came to San Francisco

    Frank Andre Guridy on Queer Athletic Activism and the Use of Stadiums as Sites of Political Struggle

    By Frank Andre Guridy  August 30, 2024
    Literary Criticism

    The Best Novel About 21st-Century Male Loneliness Was Written in 1989

    By Tobias Carroll  August 28, 2024
    Football

    How Football Builds Community and Camaraderie Among Deaf Students

    By Thomas Fuller  August 8, 2024
    The Hub

    What to read next, based on the texts you’re sending about the Olympics.

    By James Folta  August 1, 2024
    Tennis

    On My Attempt to Become a Better Tennis Player By Reading Self-Help Books

    Keith Gandal Zen on the Art of Losing Badly

    By Keith Gandal  July 31, 2024
    Literary Criticism

    Did You Know That Poetry Used to Be an Actual Olympic Sport?

    By Nick Ripatrazone  July 29, 2024
    The Olympics

    What Mary Renault’s The Last of the Wine Reveals About Athletes, Ancient and Modern

    By Justin Muchnick  July 26, 2024
    Soccer

    Liverpool Never Forgets: On the Legacy of the Hillsborough Disaster

    By Oliver Smith  March 10, 2025
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