Miguel Salazar Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Miguel Salazar

.@ingrid_rojas_c's new book is an exciting, genre-defying memoir. It's also a tender ancestral oral history, a reckoning with colonialism, and a collection of ghost stories. I reviewed it for @nytimesbooks:

Miguel Salazar

Invested in language and the subtleties of power dynamics, Kitamura’s novel follows a young, cosmopolitan woman drawn into simmering personal dramas when she travels to The Hague to work as an interpreter at the International Criminal Court.

Miguel Salazar

Though the dust has yet to settle on their legacies, this dual biography is a comprehensive primer into the entwined histories of the two titans and the commercial forces that have molded their careers and, by extension, the sport.

Miguel Salazar

Galeano’s limitless curiosity guides readers through soccer’s origins, his favorite World Cup moments and other peculiar observations, such as how playing goalkeeper in Algeria taught Camus how to “unravel several mysteries of the human soul.”

Miguel Salazar

Wilson’s book is at once a crash course in soccer strategy and a scrupulous history that traces the sport’s evolution and chronicles how playing styles have risen and fallen against a constantly evolving tactical landscape.

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Miguel Salazar

Written by an investigative journalist at The Guardian, this barnburner chronicles the spectacular history of FIFA’s rise and fall from grace, from its early ambition to spread the gospel of soccer globally to the growing corruption that ultimately devastated its reputation.

Miguel Salazar

This idiosyncratic essay collection, translated by Thomas Bunstead, is an appreciation guided by Villoro’s interests in the sociology of sport, player psychology and the aesthetic beauty of a game that he says “constantly teeters on the edge” of perfection.

Miguel Salazar

The political theorist’s latest celebrates our beleaguered democracy and offers ideas on how to revitalize it. The Times critic Jennifer Szalai called it “one of those rare books about a pressing subject that reads less like a forced march than an inviting stroll.”

Miguel Salazar

This account covers 2,000 years of history, from gruesome experiments in ancient Egypt to the icepick lobotomies of the 1950s, in a series of engrossing stories about evil and skulduggery.

Miguel Salazar

At its best, it is a robust and haunting picture of 1990s Mexico City, its film scene hollowed out by neoliberal reforms and bad taste…the novel picks up, taking on an electrifying rhythm as Moreno-Garcia’s inventive and carefully arranged supernatural mystery unravels.