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Book Category: Fiction

The Football Factory

The Football Factory uses the voice of a football hooligan to examine a form of belonging built around aggression, territory and exclusion. John King’s novel is relevant to sport culture precisely because it refuses the comfortable assumption that identification with a club always produces community in a healthy or generous form.

The Art of Fielding

The Art of Fielding begins with a gifted shortstop and an errant throw, then follows the consequences far beyond the baseball diamond. Chad Harbach uses Henry Skrimshander’s disrupted confidence to examine what happens when a talent becomes the foundation of a person’s identity.