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Around the World in 209 Teams: A Review of Thirty-One Nil by James Montague

ByMiles Wray

Thirty-One Nil: On the Road With Football’s Outsiders–A World Cup Odyssey James Montague Bloomsbury, 2014, Bloomsbury 330 pages $18.00 Buy: book | ebook The work-ditching phenomena that our globe experienced throughout June and July, known as the World Cup, is really just the polished and gawked-at tip of the World Cup iceberg. Beneath the surface,…

The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Great Tennis Player: Looking Back at Foster Wallace on Federer

The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Great Tennis Player: Looking Back at Foster Wallace on Federer

ByMiles Wray

Under Review: “Federer as Religious Experience,” article by David Foster Wallace for New York Times, August 20, 2006. Collected in Both Flesh and Not: Essays (Little, Brown and Company, 2012, 336 pages). On July 6th, Swiss tennis player Roger Federer lost the final match in this year’s Wimbledon men’s tennis tournament, to the Serbian tennis…