Four-fifths of the way through Álvaro Enrigue’s Muerte súbita (Sudden Death), the narrator admits that he doesn’t know what the book is about. It’s not about the birth of tennis as a popular sport ...
Anne Diebel
Anne Diebel is the Robert Belknap Core Faculty Fellow at Columbia. She is working on a book about American modernism and the culture of personality. Her writing also appears in the London Review of Books. 