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The Joy of Running
On the Fundamental Human Rhythm of One Foot After the Other
By
Gary McDowell
| January 18, 2017
The New Literature of MMA
On the 21st Century Writing About a Very 21st Century Sport
By
Dwyer Murphy
| November 11, 2016
A Literary Look at the Last Time the Cubs Won the World Series
The Year in Literature, 1908. Or, Variations on a Meme
By
Emily Temple
| November 3, 2016
Ha Jin on the Long Reach of the Chinese Government
Love, Betrayal, and the Totalitarian Machine
By
Dylan Foley
| October 25, 2016
On the Short-Lived All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
There's No Crying in Baseball—But There
Was
Lipstick
By
Cait Murphy
| October 25, 2016
Jackie Robinson Was More Than Just a Pioneer
On the Man and Player Who Made History
By
Cait Murphy
| October 25, 2016
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Three Tales of Baseball in Honor of the World Series
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Literary Hub
| October 25, 2016
When Babe Ruth Called His Shot Against the Chicago Cubs
By
Cait Murphy
| October 25, 2016
32 Imaginary Tennis Matches Paul Auster's Godson Would Like To See
By
Literary Hub
| September 9, 2016
Why You Should Hate Football (But Will Watch It Anyway)
12 Books to Explain a Nation's Obsessions
By
Dwyer Murphy
| September 8, 2016
Gretzky to Wittgenstein to Nabokov... He Scores!
Memorializing Greatness in Sport is as Complex as Imagining
One's Own Immortality
By
Andrew Stark
| August 29, 2016
Why Do I Still Care If the US Men's Basketball Team Wins Gold?
Benjamin Markovits on Winning Streaks and the Rest of the World
By
Benjamin Markovits
| August 19, 2016
20 Writers From Around the World on the Olympics
What to Look Forward to And Which Sports are Like Writing
By
Literary Hub
| August 5, 2016
A Neoliberal Trojan Horse: Dave Zirin on the Olympics
Dwyer Murphy talks Rio with the
The Nation
's Sports Editor
By
Dwyer Murphy
| July 28, 2016
Bob Shacochis: How Surfing Lead Me to Writing
On a Pathological Love of the Hardest Sport in the World
By
Bob Shacochis
| July 8, 2016
Tennis: Good/Evil, Dread/Joy, All of Existence Within the Lines
The Literature of Tennis is the Literature of Life
By
Matt Seidel
| July 6, 2016
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"Strikingly em Ghost-Eye em has none of the eerie mood of a Gothic novel or…"