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Sports
On the Hidden History of Queer Women in Baseball
Britni de la Cretaz on the Research Behind Breaking the Story
By
Britni de la Cretaz
| March 13, 2019
Why Does This Small Vermont Town Have So Many Olympians?
“I don’t know if it’s the well water or what.”
By
Karen Crouse
| January 22, 2019
On the Intensity of Watching Basketball Alone in a Foreign Country
Benjamin Markovits Was
Not
Going to Miss Jordan's Comeback
By
Benjamin Markovits
| December 6, 2018
Hell Week: On Inner City Football in the Wake of Ferguson
“Today is when we find out who’s a
football player.
”
By
Albert Samaha
| September 17, 2018
Stepping Into the Boxing Ring as a Transgender Man
Thomas Page McBee Prepares for One More Fight
By
Thomas Page McBee
| August 14, 2018
He Was the Best We'd Ever Seen: On Baseball, Greatness, and Writing
Seth Sawyers Wonders Whatever Happened to the Phenom of Allegany County
By
Seth Sawyers
| July 17, 2018
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Pin-Ups First, Athletes Second: Sexism in Surfing
By
Holly Isemonger
| June 25, 2018
How Do We Get the USA Back to the World Cup?
By
Bruce Arena
| June 25, 2018
How Tango Rewired My Brain... and My Body
By
Meghan Flaherty
| June 21, 2018
Why Soccer is the Most Universal Language on the Planet
Every Game is Its Own Story: An Epic, A Tragedy, and A Comedy, All at Once
By
Laurent Dubois
| June 20, 2018
Colin Kaepernick: A True Dissident
How He Exposed the Sports World’s Limited Scope, Curiosity, and Critical Thinking
By
Howard Bryant
| May 11, 2018
The Wild Nights of a Ballplayer in 1950s Manhattan
Just Another Night at Toots Shor's with Mickey Mantle and the Boys
By
Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
| March 30, 2018
Our Tonya: Growing Up in Thrall to an American Antiheroine
Tracy O'Neill on the Symbolic Heft of Tonya Harding
By
Tracy O'Neill
| December 14, 2017
Life in the Body of a Runner
Kyoko Mori on the Meditative State of a Human Being in Motion
By
Kyoko Mori
| December 14, 2017
Muhammad Ali, Author of "The Greatest Book of All Time"?
The Early 1970s were Hard Times for an American Icon
By
Jonathan Eig
| November 1, 2017
Trying to Save the Lost Soul of College Sports
In Conversation with the Author of
Champions Way
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| November 1, 2017
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is the Ultimate Cozy Mystery
June 5, 2026
by
Olivia Rutigliano
Mommy and Me: 6 Thrillers with Troubled Parent-Child Relationships
June 5, 2026
by
Leah Rowan
6 Books on the Dark Side of Influencer Culture and Social Media
June 5, 2026
by
Lauren Wilson
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"resonated so strongly with me that I cannot pretend to be objective about how much…"