The title of Aleksandar Hemon’s essay in the current Granta, “If God Existed, He’d Be a Solid Midfielder,” would not impress seminarians in Hemon’s adopted home, Chicago. But for the writer from Sarajevo, lack of soccer means spiritual death. With interview »
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Dec 10 | Özgür Dirim Özkan, in fieldwork among supporters’ groups in Sarajevo since Feb 07 and on the Bosnian Football Culture website, has examined football as but a small part of a society that, in the Western frame, implies little but ethnic-riven conflict and a constellation of indecipherable place names. With 28-minute podcast.
Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, has campaigned to relocate the remains of goalkeeper-cum-existentialist Albert Camus from their resting place in Lourmarin. More about language & literature »
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