Canada's forests are on fire, and the smoke is so thick it's breaking records

offering a deeper social experience.

and I owe a ton of that knowledge to Joy Katz for her essay Tennis Is the Opposite of Death: A Proof.Louisa Thomas opens Let It Be Love by rejecting the schmaltzy application of a popular tennis term:Theres a T-shirt favored by a certain kind of tennis player that says.

The balls tone is a hollow pok on hard courts and a chalky chh-chh on clay that dies on the second bounce.Christopher Notarnicolas work was featured in The Best American Essays 2017 and has been published in American Short Fiction.a philosophy):The courts were our familys livelihood; their quality was a matter of pride for my father.

 choose our new summer bundle and purchase a years worth of The Paris Review and The New York Review of Books for $99 ($50 off the regular price!).And Clancy Martin similarly centers his story An Event in the Stairwell:I kept my eyes on the racket.

Ive heard again and again of the history about to be made: Rafael Nadals seventh French championship (history made).

And this story both never was and will always be about Rafael Nadals run as the master of clay-court tennis.with new whales developing new songs.

We would never have known about this without new acoustic monitoring technology.But as far as scientists can tell.

Humpback whale songs have been recorded extensively.The songs typically lasted between hours and days.