Ghost Race
The midlife loser triumphs: Robert Andrew Powell runs his way into a new life.
Sports
"I see great things in baseball." — Walt Whitman
Malamudville
Bernard Malamud's anomaly: 'The Natural'
Whatta Mensch! A Review of Mendoza the Jew: Boxing, Manliness & Nationalism
Soccer as Drama/Melodrama
“This simple articulation of the soccer fan’s crisis is about as deep into the existential mire as Papers in the Wind cares to delve.”
Specimen Days: How Bosnia Qualified and I Survived
The Autocrat’s Guide To World Cup Qualification
More than a Sport: What the World Cup Means to Spain
What the World Cup means to Spain
World Cup Diary: Losing Brazil 2014 to the Future
Losing Brazil 2014 to the Future
The Young Man and the Sea
The small, lovely, but difficult, ways human beings heal in a world rife with mistakes and misjudgments, wrongdoing and despair.
We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part III: Slopestyle, Sorokin-style: Sochi 2014
LARB returns with a sequel to its “Poetry at the Olympics” series, featuring poets from across America responding to the Winter Olympics at Sochi.
This Fan’s Notes: A Football Elegy
A lifetime fan confronts the NFL’s history of concussion denial and cover-ups
Sucking on the ’70s: "Hey Rube" and Hunter S. Thompson as Sports Writer
Hunter S. Thompson, the sports writer
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