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The Palm at the End of the Mind

A French activist I know, a person with a flair for assailing the idiocies of modern life, someone who pines, though not romantically, for a trapdoor to a better world,…

Dead Ball Situation

by Geoff Dyer,

A philosopher’s flat-footed meditations on the beautiful game

Only a Game

by Karl Ove Knausgaard,

From a letter written by Karl Ove Knausgaard to Fredrik Ekelund, a novelist, in 2014. The letter was included in Home and Away, a collection of their letters about the…

Fighting Chance

by Samuel James,

Photographs from the English Premier League

Fighting Chance

by Samuel James,

Samuel James photographs the English Premier League season; Leicester City nears the title

World Cup Boom and Bust

by Chris Feliciano Arnold,

Will a four-game stint as a World Cup host city improve life in Manaus?

The Global Game

by Simon Kuper,

By Simon Kuper, a columnist for the Financial Times, from lectures delivered in April at Occidental and Pitzer Colleges. Kuper’s books on soccer include Soccernomics, which he co-wrote with Stefan…