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New Books Network

The Longstanding Love Affair of Cocaine and Surfing

By New Books Network  November 6, 2020
Keen On

Is There Any Scandal Big Enough to Take Down Nike?

By Keen On  October 22, 2020
Baseball

On Bill Buckner’s Greatest Catch (with a Little Help from Larry David)

By Abby Ellin  October 8, 2020
The Hub

It’s been a bittersweet week for surf literature.

By Dan Sheehan  October 7, 2020
Basketball

How a Poem Ends Up As a Basketball Epic

By Inua Ellams  September 30, 2020
News and Culture

Spending a Night Alone in Mount Everest’s Death Zone

By Jennifer Hull  September 16, 2020
Letters Home

Ross Gay: Have I Even Told You Yet About the Courts I’ve Loved?

By Ross Gay  September 15, 2020
Sports

You’re Paying for Sports Stadiums You Don’t Even Go To

By Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson  August 31, 2020
Sports History

When Muhammad Ali First Met the Black Prince of Harlem

By Todd D. Snyder  August 27, 2020
Tennis

If You Want to See Who Someone Really Is, Get Them on a Tennis Court

By Andrea Petkovic  August 20, 2020
The Hub

Here are the greatest novels ever written about every sport.

By Dan Sheehan  August 12, 2020
The Hub

Seattle’s new hockey team is called the Kraken (which is a literary character?)

By Jonny Diamond  July 23, 2020
The Hub

Will sports action-adventure-thriller novels become a thing?

By Jonny Diamond  July 10, 2020
Reading Lists

In Lieu of the Olympics:
A Reading List For Your Sports Fix

By Elise Hooper  July 8, 2020
Feminism

Arrested For Wearing a Bathing Suit: Life as an Early Female Swimmer

By Howard Means  June 29, 2020
Sports

10 Works of Literary Fiction
for Runners

By Emily Temple  June 23, 2020
Sports

Reckoning with the Toll Gymnastics Takes on
Women’s Lives

By Hannah Orenstein  June 22, 2020
Sports

Is Ball Four the Greatest Baseball Memoir Ever Written?

By Mitchell Nathanson  June 15, 2020
Feminism

A Brief Feminist History of Bike-Riding

By Hannah Ross  June 8, 2020
Sports History

The Amateur Cyclist Who Biked Around the World

By David V. Herlihy  May 26, 2020
Olympics

With the Olympics Canceled, There’s Plenty of Time to Read Up on Heroic Moments in Sports

By Elise Hooper  May 22, 2020
Sports Science

When Dreams of Perfection Brush Up Against Human Limits

By Brett Cyrgalis  May 12, 2020
Baseball

Rediscovering Lou Gehrig’s
Lost Memoir

By Alan D. Gaff  May 12, 2020
Basketball

Are Basketball Superstars More Loyal to Their Teams, or Sneaker Companies?

By Ethan Sherwood Strauss  April 17, 2020
Baseball

The Early Career of a New York
Yankee Icon

By Jon Pessah  April 14, 2020
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