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    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    Because Facts Still Matter

     
    By Literary Hub  December 24, 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

    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
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    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

    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
    Basketball

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

    Dave McMenamin on Nathaniel S. Butler’s Pioneering Work Capturing Some of Professional Basketball’s Greatest Moments

    By Dave McMenamin  November 5, 2024
    Skateboarding

    How a Generation of Women and Queer Skateboarders Fought for Visibility and Recognition

    By Deborah Stoll  July 18, 2024
    The Hub

    8 bike books to read before the Tour de France ends.

    By James Folta  July 17, 2024
    Soccer

    Joseph O’Neill on Writing a Socially Relevant Soccer Novel

    By Belinda McKeon  July 3, 2024
    Swimming

    On the Time Benjamin Franklin, American Show-Off, Jumped Naked Into the Thames

    Vicki Valosik on Our Millennia Long Love-Hate Relationship With Getting in the Water

    By Vicki Valosik  June 27, 2024
    Wrestling

    A Woman’s Place is in the Ring: On Gender, Performativity and the Unreal

    By Rufi Thorpe  June 11, 2024
    Basketball

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

    By Mac Crane  June 10, 2024
    Sports

    Friday Night Flames: How Wildfires Threatened One High School’s Football Season

    By Madeleine Orr  May 13, 2024
    Baseball

    Lost in Translation: Unpacking the Shohei Ohtani Scandal

    Emily Nemens On the All-But-Invisible Role of Interpreters, in Literature and in Baseball

    By Emily Nemens  April 8, 2024
    Sports

    On the Time the Iron Sheik Threatened to Kill Me

    By Brad Balukjian  April 8, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Rita Bullwinkel on Writing Sports Narratives

    By Rita Bullwinkel  March 29, 2024
    Women’s Sports

    No Perfect Laps, No Perfect Drafts: Jade Song on What Swimming Taught Her About Writing

    By Jade Song  March 28, 2024
    Baseball

    Ten Unforgettable Baseball Nicknames of Yesteryear

    Kevin Baker Takes Us On a Journey Through New York City Baseball History

    By Kevin Baker  March 28, 2024
    Baseball

    Greek Tragedy in the Bottom of the Ninth: On Baseball’s High Literary Drama

    By Keith O'Brien  March 27, 2024
    Basketball

    How Lew Alcindor Became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

    By Scott Howard-Cooper  March 18, 2024
    The Olympics

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

    By Justin Muchnick  July 26, 2024
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