• Sports

    Sports History

    When Bruce Lee Trained With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

    Jeff Chang on What Two Iconic Athletes Learned From Their Collaboration

     
    By Jeff Chang  September 25, 2025
    Tennis

    Failing Better: On The Tennis Player and The Writer

    By Thomas Swick  September 5, 2025
    Climbing

    Holding Tight: When to Fall and When to Keep Climbing

    By Emily Meg Weinstein  September 5, 2025
    Australia

    Why Helen Garner Embedded With Her Grandson’s Footy Club

    By Helen Garner  September 4, 2025
    World War II

    The Poet Who Watched a Football Game on Nagasaki’s Atomic Killing Field

    By Greg Mitchell  August 8, 2025
    Profiles

    Muscle Beach: Surfing with Bonnie Tsui

    By Mickie Meinhardt  July 16, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that made us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  July 3, 2025
    Wrestling

    “Shakespeare in a Ring.” Hulk Hogan and the Rise of Pro Wrestling in the American Psyche

    By Marc Raimondi  June 25, 2025
    Surfing

    Waves and Wipeouts: On Learning How to Surf As an Adult

    By David Litt  June 25, 2025
    The Body

    Pain as Progress: On Bodybuilding, Poetry and Transformation

    “Rupture is a prerequisite for reparation. Hurting couldn’t be avoided. Hurting was the point.”

    By Isabella DeSendi  September 15, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  June 6, 2025
    Sports

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

    By Mark Kriegel  June 4, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Four Great Sports Books That Go Way Beyond the Game

    By S. L. Price  June 3, 2025
    Sports History

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

    Brendan O’Meara on the Star Runner's Performance at the 1972 Summer Games

    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

    Kyle Edwards on Writing Fiction Inspired by the Struggles and Hopes of Canada’s Indigenous Nations

    By Kyle Edwards  April 21, 2025
    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
    Soccer

    Liverpool Never Forgets: On the Legacy of the Hillsborough Disaster

    Oliver Smith Considers Soccer as Sport and Religion in the United Kingdom

    By Oliver Smith  March 10, 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

    Dad Books: a flowchart.

    By Brittany Allen  June 11, 2025
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