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...
Forty Years of Squash in the Maccabiah Games
By Sarah Odell
The third largest sporting event in the world is the Maccabiah Games. Held every four years in Israel, the so-called Jewish Olympics are a major international sporting competition. Only Jewish athletes can...
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,...
Will’s World: Take Note
By Will Carlin
My high school squash notebook looks like a rainbow. For some unremembered reason, I was rigorous about keeping my notes in a different color each day. Not just any color: they had...
Masters of Fate: A Personal Report on the 2016 World Masters
By Alan Stapleton
I am an average squash player, an ever-learning coach and a try-my-best administrator. Squash pulses passionately through my veins. When I heard the news that South Africa was hosting the 2016 World...
Lighting Up Blue
By Will Carlin
Rich Furman likes to fish. An architect by trade, Rich is a fifty-something squash coach with grey eyes that sometimes turn piercing blue, a ponytail and goatee, and a very lean build...
Tennessee, Tennessee, Ain’t No Place I’d Rather Be
By John Branston
Squash lovers, like stock pickers, are prone to be overly bullish. As a squash evangelist and former card-carrying, trend-spotting reporter, I have forecast seven of the last two surges in squash in...
Staying Alive
By Will Carlin
Frenchman Mathieu Castagnet was tired.
His opponent, Englishman Daryl Selby, knew this, and so perhaps he can be forgiven for being certain he’d won a point during a second-round match at the Windy...
New Squash Documentary Takes a Look Behind the Glass
By James Zug
Camera crews often come to film at urban squash programs. Usually they are making a short segment for local television. It is pretty common. George Polsky, the founder and executive director of...
Merion Says Farewell to Hardball Singles
By James Zug
In February, the U.S. National Hardball Singles Championships had a successful farewell as a national championship at Merion Cricket Club. Eighty-one players from around the continent came to Philadelphia to play with...