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What to read next, based on the texts you’re sending about the Olympics.
By
James Folta
| August 1, 2024
On My Attempt to Become a Better Tennis Player By Reading Self-Help Books
Keith Gandal Zen on the Art of Losing Badly
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Keith Gandal
| July 31, 2024
Did You Know That Poetry Used to Be an Actual Olympic Sport?
And the First Openly Gay Olympic Medalist Was a Poet
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Nick Ripatrazone
| July 29, 2024
What Mary Renault’s
The Last of the Wine
Reveals About Athletes, Ancient and Modern
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Justin Muchnick
| July 26, 2024
How a Generation of Women and Queer Skateboarders Fought for Visibility and Recognition
Deborah Stoll on Defying Gender Norms and Expectations in Extreme Sports
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Deborah Stoll
| July 18, 2024
8 bike books to read before the Tour de France ends.
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| July 17, 2024
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A Woman’s Place is in the Ring: On Gender, Performativity and the Unreal
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Not Like Other Dykes: On Femininity, Basketball, and the Caitlin Clark Effect
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Mac Crane
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Friday Night Flames: How Wildfires Threatened One High School’s Football Season
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Madeleine Orr
| May 13, 2024
Lost in Translation: Unpacking the Shohei Ohtani Scandal
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Emily Nemens
| April 8, 2024
On the Time the Iron Sheik Threatened to Kill Me
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Brad Balukjian
| April 8, 2024
Rita Bullwinkel on Writing Sports Narratives
The Great Divide Between Playing and Watching
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Rita Bullwinkel
| March 29, 2024
No Perfect Laps, No Perfect Drafts: Jade Song on What Swimming Taught Her About Writing
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Ten Unforgettable Baseball Nicknames of Yesteryear
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Kevin Baker
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Thinking Outside the Cop: Using Game Wardens in Crime Fiction
January 13, 2026
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Sarah Crouch
Make Our Villains Gayer, Please: Reclaiming the Trope of Queer-Coded Antagonists
January 13, 2026
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Isha Raya
Ross Montgomery on Researching Profanity, Halley's Comet, and Writing Historical Fiction
January 13, 2026
by
Alex Dueben
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