Lit & Chess
Andy LeeI'm a FIDE Master and studied English in college, so I'll be writing about chess and books on a semi-regular basis.
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The Steroid Era of Everything
I grew up rooting for one of the greatest cheaters of all time. Other athletes of his era might have taken more shortcuts to stardom, but very few of them reached the same heights. In the early 2000s, Barry Bonds was inevitable.
It takes a...
Comedy of Errors
Ben Mezrich’s account of the Carlsen-Niemann affair, Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess, hit bookstores across America early this summer. This week a staff writer at Lit & Chess received an anonymous email c...
Deb Olin Unferth's Earth 7
If you take the long view of things, the Earth, and everything living on it, is doomed. Over the next one or two billion years scientists predict that the continents will come together, the carbon cycle will collapse, the oceans will boil,...
On Blunders
Years ago I watched a lot of American football. Then I gave it up — I can’t support a sport that leaves so many of its players brain damaged. Nevertheless, I sometimes miss it because there’s no other sport that reminds me so much of chess....
Joseph Heller's Something Happened
Maybe the only thing you need to know about Joseph Heller’s second novel, Something Happened, is that it could easily have inspired the lyrics to a number of excellent 90s alternative rock songs, including the opening lyrics to “Basket Case...
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