As the Wimbledon championships approach, here are three books that delve into the culture, personalities and politics of the tennis world:
STRING THEORY
By David Foster Wallace
158 pp. Library of America. (2016)
In this slim compilation of five of David Foster Wallace’s writings on tennis, his intelligent and dazzling style combined with his insider knowledge (he was a junior player as a teenager) and passion deliver a multidimensional analysis of the sport. In an essay about his own career, he describes tennis as “billiards with balls that won’t hold still,” and as “chess on the run.