Football, an ambitious collection of essays from veteran cultural critic and novelist Chuck Klosterman attempting to capture the sport’s past, present, and future, arrived in stores Jan. 20. This was ...

Antonio Salazar, Portugal’s fascist dictator who ruled from 1932 to 1968, famously governed the country with “three Fs”: fado (music), Fatima (religion), and football. These pillars formed the ...

For those who think this sounds a bit dramatic, Football is, if nothing else, the most thorough exegesis since Frederick Exley’s A Fan’s Notes of how the sport bewitches a man’s mind, body, and soul, ...