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Luca Guadagnino’s film starring Zendaya specializes in violent and gorgeous emotional devastation.
September 27, 2023
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Will Women’s Tennis Cross the Saudi Rubicon?
In recent years, Saudi Arabia has been spending billions on professional sports, buying up players, teams, and leagues worldwide. Is women’s tennis—with its storied history of fighting for equality and social justice—next?
September 9, 2023
Marek Makowski
Why Climate Protesters Are Focusing on Tennis
Human-caused climate change has been around for less time than tennis, but it will leave its scars on the earth for longer than the outlines of our hard courts.
July 27, 2023
Magazine
Alex Shephard
Saudi Arabia’s Dizzying Scheme to Devour the Sports World
The kingdom’s insatiable appetite and bottomless riches are remaking global culture.
June 8, 2016
Adam Peck
Maria Sharapova is out of the game for two years in connection to her failed drug test.
June 1, 2016
Elizabeth Wilson
How an “Indecent” Outfit Revolutionized Women’s Tennis
The sport's role in liberating women from the passivity of Victorian society.
March 7, 2016
Adam Peck
Maria Sharapova failed a drug test during the Australian Open.
February 10, 2014
Geoff Dyer
Photo: Serena Williams Playing Tennis in Outer Space
October 12, 2009
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The Moral Equivalent to Football
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