On the way into Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium during this year’s World Cup, spectators found FIFA’s flagship Fan Shop in an unlikely spot: at the feet of a monumental statue to Lenin. The irony was ...

Miles Osgood
Miles Osgood is a PhD student in English at Harvard University, where he is at work on a dissertation on global modernism and international sport, focusing on the Olympic Art Competitions of 1912 to 1948. He has written for The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Washington Post.