A Bloop and a Blast

LINDSAY ZOLADZ ON THE MYSTERIOUS, MERCURIAL WORLD OF BASEBALL FANDOM

Season of the Pitch

LEO ROBSON ON HOW THE ENGLISH NATIONAL TEAM CHANGED SOCCER—AND SPORTS JOURNALISM

When the Shirt Hit the Fans

MOIRA DONEGAN ON BRANDI CHASTAIN AND THE BROKEN PROMISES OF ’90S POP FEMINISM

The Year of Magic Thinking

GENE SEYMOUR ON TRUTH, MYTHOLOGY, AND THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS

Meet the Mets

LINDSAY ZOLADZ on five films about the New York Mets

Hunger Games

HANNAH GOLD on guts and glory in Bernard Malamud’s baseball novel

The Guy Who Stayed Out in the Cold

LIZZY HARDING on Wim Hof’s extreme approach to human potential

Alas, King Richard

HARMONY HOLIDAY on a tennis father’s complicated quest for greatness

Knight Vision

WILL TAVLIN on chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov’s strategic maneuvers

Applauded at Every Point

BILLY LENNON on Geoff Dyer and tennis

Get Smart

MIRANDA POPKEY on the great Celtics guard Marcus Smart

Track Changes

MELISSA ANDERSON on Patricia Nell Warren’s gay runners’ novel

Mixed Doubles

JANIQUE VIGIER on Elaine Sturtevant’s tennis game

Flair Play

JORDAN COLEY on William Klein’s documentary about the 1981 French Open

The Ice Storm

ED PARK on Ken Dryden’s hockey chronicles

Touchdown and Out

ADAM WILSON on Eugene Marten’s novel of a footballer’s fall from grace

Different Strokes

AMITAVA KUMAR on watching cricket from afar

The Running of the Bulls

ELIAS RODRIQUES on Sam Smith’s cult all-access account of a legendary basketball team

More Than a Game

JULIE KLIEGMAN on Renée Richards’s historic US Open matches

ROSS GAY recalls scenes from a life in basketball

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on this season’s notable art books

ASAD RAZA interviews Geoff Dyer about tennis, art, and time

RACHEL TASHJIAN on the history of athletic fashion for women

JUSTIN TAYLOR: William Brewer’s The Red Arrow

REBECCA PANOVKA: Elif Batuman’s Either/Or

SASHA FRERE-JONES: Gary Indiana’s Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984–2021

KATE SUTTON: Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death

ALBERT MOBILIO: Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound

NATASHA LENNARD: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s Reconsidering Reparations

MAX READ: Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou’s Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World

ALEX PRESS: Daisy Pitkin’s On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union