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Why Would Anyone Choose to Run 100 Miles Through the Desert?
Adharanand Finn on Striving for the Edges of Human Endurance
By
Adharanand Finn
| May 31, 2019
Are You a Roger or a Tiger? On Specialization vs. Variety
Hamilton Cain Considers David Epstein's
Range
By
Hamilton Cain
| May 28, 2019
The History Behind Baseball's
Weirdest Pitch
Tyler Kepner on the Improbable Success of the Curveball
By
Tyler Kepner
| April 24, 2019
On Oliver Sacks' Obsession With Weightlifting
What a Writer's Fitness Regime Can Tell Us About the Writing
By
Ross Mcindoe
| April 18, 2019
Tragedies of Ambition: On the Fine Art of American Sportswriting
Wright Thompson Heads Home to See the Big Picture
By
Wright Thompson
| April 12, 2019
Fiction/Non/Fiction
:
March Madness Edition
Marcus Burke and Shira Springer Join Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan
By
Fiction Non Fiction
| March 21, 2019
Best Reviewed
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Why Are Writers Drawn to Boxing?
By
Josh Rosenblatt
| March 14, 2019
On the Hidden History of Queer Women in Baseball
By
Britni de la Cretaz
| March 13, 2019
Why Does This Small Vermont Town Have So Many Olympians?
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
Pin-Ups First, Athletes Second: Sexism in Surfing
How Australian Surf-Lit Excludes Women
By
Holly Isemonger
| June 25, 2018
How Do We Get the USA Back to the World Cup?
Bruce Arena: Two Decades On and We're Fighting the Same Issues
By
Bruce Arena
| June 25, 2018
How Tango Rewired My Brain... and My Body
Meghan Flaherty on the Highs and Lows of Learning to Dance
By
Meghan Flaherty
| June 21, 2018
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The Strange History of the Poyais Scandal, the World's First Great Bond Fraud
September 29, 2026
by
Robin Wigglesworth
David McCloskey: How to Win Friends and Recruit Sources For Your Spy Novel
September 29, 2026
by
David McCloskey
Melissa Anderson Sweazy on Gifts, Magical Inheritances, and Defying Expectations
September 29, 2026
by
Melissa Anderson Sweazy
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"The plot here like the plots in the previous three Mandel novels I've read is…"