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Sports
Here are the greatest novels ever written about every sport.
By
Dan Sheehan
| August 12, 2020
Seattle’s new hockey team is called the Kraken (which is a literary character?)
By
Jonny Diamond
| July 23, 2020
Will sports action-adventure-thriller novels become a thing?
By
Jonny Diamond
| July 10, 2020
In Lieu of the Olympics:
A Reading List For Your Sports Fix
From the Track to the Sea to the Hard Courts of Vegas, Elise Hooper Has Some Recommendations
By
Elise Hooper
| July 8, 2020
Arrested For Wearing a Bathing Suit: Life as an Early Female Swimmer
Howard Means on Annette Kellerman
By
Howard Means
| June 29, 2020
10 Works of Literary Fiction
for Runners
Read Along With Your New Pandemic Workout
By
Emily Temple
| June 23, 2020
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Reckoning with the Toll Gymnastics Takes on
Women's Lives
By
Hannah Orenstein
| June 22, 2020
Is
Ball Four
the Greatest Baseball Memoir Ever Written?
By
Mitchell Nathanson
| June 15, 2020
A Brief Feminist History of Bike-Riding
By
Hannah Ross
| June 8, 2020
The Amateur Cyclist Who Biked Around the World
Fred Birchmore Had the Makings of a Sports Pioneer
By
David V. Herlihy
| May 26, 2020
With the Olympics Canceled, There's Plenty of Time to Read Up on Heroic Moments in Sports
A Reading List From Elise Hooper, From the Waves to the Rink
By
Elise Hooper
| May 22, 2020
When Dreams of Perfection Brush Up Against Human Limits
The School That Optimizes Golf Performance
By
Brett Cyrgalis
| May 12, 2020
Rediscovering Lou Gehrig's
Lost Memoir
Alan D. Gaff on Reading the Story of a Legend Nearly a Century Later
By
Alan D. Gaff
| May 12, 2020
Are Basketball Superstars More Loyal to Their Teams, or Sneaker Companies?
Ethan Sherwood Strauss Offers a Steph Curry Case Study
By
Ethan Sherwood Strauss
| April 17, 2020
The Early Career of a New York
Yankee Icon
On Yogi Berra's Journey from Rookie to Ten-Time Championship Winner
By
Jon Pessah
| April 14, 2020
The Operatic Rise and Fall of Tiger Woods
Michael Bamberger on the Power and Scandal Around
One of the World's Great Athletes
By
Michael Bamberger
| April 1, 2020
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The Best International Fiction of the Month: September 2026
September 4, 2026
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Molly Odintz
How Harry Kurnitz Conquered Hollywood, Broadway, and the Biblio-Mystery
September 4, 2026
by
Nicholas A. Basbanes
How the New T.J. English Reader Mines the Dark Soul of America
September 4, 2026
by
David Masciotra
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
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