Racquet issue 4 Number of Issues:1 Thomas Albdorf photographs the plastic

Thomas Albdorf photographs the plastic straw

Racquet uses the sport as a starting point for telling broader stories about art

Published in early 2017

Stephen Tignor explains the absence created by Bjorn Borg’s retirement: “He had idolized Borg

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Racquet issue 4 Number of Issues:1 Thomas Albdorf photographs the plastic120 pages 24x19 cm Published in New York, 2017 A tennis magazine unlike any other, Racquet uses the sport as a starting point for telling broader stories about art, rivalry, victory and defeat. This issues opening story on tennis in Russian literature is a perfect case in point, tracing a line from Tolstoys Anna Karenina in the 1870s to Nabokovs Lolita in 1955, and explaining what tennis tells us about the characters in those stories, and about