Book Review: Lucky, Anil Nayar’s Story
Lucky: Anil Nayar’s Story—A Portrait of a Legendary Squash Champion
By Jean Nayar
(New York: Five Rivers Press, 2020).
By James Zug
Lucky is the biography of one of the top amateurs of the twentieth century. Anil Nayar...
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes: How to Rethink Your Life
By James Zug
When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn’t the Life You Want
By Mike Lewis
(New York: Henry Holt, 2018)
When we last visited with Mike Lewis with the article “Have Racquet, Will Travel”...
Time for the Beach: Two New Novels
By James Zug
Eden
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
Berkeley, CA: She Writes Press, 2017
A family struggling to overcome devastating secrets while in a beautiful place is the core of Jeanne Blasberg’s debut novel.
Blasberg is most well-known to this...
Murder, Demurrage and Double-Dot Deadlines: New Squash Books To Consider
By James Zug
Last issue we reviewed a single book, 555, about Jahangir Khan; this issue we take on seven books ranging from novels to anthologies to coaching manuals.
The Science of Sport: Squash
By Stafford Murray,...
Conqueror of the World
By James Zug
555: The Untold Story Behind Squash’s Invincible Champion and Sport’s Greatest Unbeaten Run
by Rod Gilmour and Alan Thatcher
Worthing, England: Pitch Publishing, 2016
It is hard to recall now, a quarter of...
How to be a Good Squash Parent: A Look at New Books
By James Zug
The Winning Parent: A Parent’s Guide for the Journey of Competitive Sport—A System for Winning Now and Forever with Your Children in Sport
By Daniel Massaro
(New York: Mairs & Shaw Publishing, 2015)
Last year...
Good Literary Length: Three New Books
Good Literary Length: Three New Books
By James Zug
Trading Secrets: Squash Greats Recall Their Toughest Duels
Rod Gilmour
(Durrington, England: Pitch Publishing, 2015)
Oral history books are notoriously unreliable. What one person remembers might not jib with the...
Book Review: Play Better Squash by John Beddington
By James Zug
Forty-one years ago John Beddington wrote a tiny paperback squash manual, Play Better Squash, which was published in London by Queen Anne Press (the publishing house that Ian Fleming ran; perhaps the...
Book Review: Two Squash Manuals by James Zug
Two Squash Manuals
By James Zug
The G Spot: A Book about Squash
Tony Griffin
CreateSpace, 2014
Tony Griffin is a stalwart. He grew up in New Zealand and started playing squash in the early 1970s. At the time,...