To mark the publication of the latest LRB Collection of essays, about sport, Benjamin Markovits talks to David Runciman, on loan from Talking Politics, about Michael Jordan, home advantage, how basketball has tackled racial inequality, the difference between writing about sport in fiction and non-fiction, and why it turns out that players really are sometimes hot and sometimes not.
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