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The Man in the Ravine: On Andy McCullough’s “The Last of His Kind”
T. M. Brown reviews Andy McCullough’s “The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness.”
Sports
Noise from Signal: On Matthew Coller’s “Football Is a Numbers Game”
Leif Weatherby reviews Matthew Coller’s “Football Is a Numbers Game: Pro Football Focus and How a Data-Driven Approach Shook Up the Sport.”
Carnivalesque: On the Ways We See Basketball
In a preview of LARB Quarterly no. 39: “Air,” Tosten Burks surveys the new philosophy and syntax of basketball writing.
The Quarterback at Twilight: On Matthew Barney’s “Secondary”
Samuel Fury Childs Daly reviews artist Matthew Barney’s new film “Secondary.”
Ball Is Cry!! On Katie Heindl’s “Basketball Feelings”
Liz Wolfson profiles Katie Heindl, author of the sports Substack “Basketball Feelings.”
Permission to Meander: A Conversation with Drew Millard
Paul Thompson speaks with Drew Millard about his new book, “How Golf Can Save Your Life.”
Dunk Days: On Theresa Runstedtler’s “Black Ball”
Joseph Darda reviews Theresa Runstedtler’s “Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA.”
Bleeding Green and Yellow: On Football in Brazil
Clarissa Fragoso Pinheiro discusses how football in Brazil is a central pillar sustaining the collective illusion of a shared national identity.
“Entrepreneurs in Bodily Capital”: On Lisa Uperesa’s “Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game”
David Lipset reviews Lisa Uperesa’s anthropological study “Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game.”
Flow Incarnate: On Mark Yakich’s “Football”
Pickup soccer games are the world’s true social media.
On Crying for Sports Heroes
What’s the meaning of our grief for sports heroes — especially those, like Maradona, well known for their personal failings?
The Other Mr. Met
Bob Blaisdell reviews a new biography of the late, great Tom Terrific.
Baseball Road Trip: An Interview with Brad Balukjian
Julia Scheeres talks to Brad Balukjian about his road trip to track down all the players in a 1986 package of Topps.
The Jordan Rules, Recycled
ESPN’s documentary “The Last Dance” is an “untold story” we’ve all heard a million times.
America’s Long Game: On Emily Nemens’s “The Cactus League”
Mike Broida gets sent to “The Cactus League,” the debut novel from Emily Nemens.
Democracy’s Concrete Court
The ritual of pickup basketball is a pocket of democracy as close as the local park.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at “High Flying Bird”
"High Flying Bird’s" Lukácsian dramatization of class struggle remains trapped, visually and narratively, in a neoliberal perceptual apparatus.
On Infinite Baseball: An Interview with Alva Noë
Kieran Setiya interviews philosopher Alva Noë about his book, Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher on the Ballpark.
The Improvisational Wonders of Jazz and Soccer
Michael Agovino explores the formal and stylistic echoes between soccer and jazz.
Give and Go: The Double Movement of Shut Up and Dribble
Samantha N. Sheppard thinks about the back and forth between social injustice, social progress, and the institutional power of the NBA in Showtime's...
The Modern American Dilemma: Seth Greenland’s “The Hazards of Good Fortune”
Taylor Larsen praises “The Hazards of Good Fortune,” a new novel by Seth Greenland.
Sneaker Money
Connor Goodwin on "University of Nike," Joshua Hunt's look at how companies like Nike control institutions of higher learning.
The LARB Ball NBA Roundtable
On the inevitability of professional basketball
The LARB Ball NFL Roundtable
On brain trauma, Budweiser, Steamin' Willie Beamen, and the blurring of Colin Kaepernick's dissent.
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