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Kasia Boddy's newly published Boxing: A Cultural History has hit the ground running with a review by none other than Joyce Carol Oates in the latest issue of The New York Review of Books. In her relatively positive review, Oates notes:

At nearly five hundred densely packed pages, Boddy's investigation into 'the intricate conceptual and iconographic constructions' that surround boxing has the heft of a work twice its length—the equivalent, in book form, of the old-style championship boxing matches that ran as long as thirty rounds, often in the broiling sun. . . . . Boxing: A Cultural History would seem to include everything that has ever been written, depicted, or in any way recorded about boxing no matter how obscure, whimsical, or trivial; a treasure trove for boxing historians and aficionados that might evoke vertigo in less committed readers. . . .

As Kasia Boddy's masterwork of bricolage sweeps on, there comes to be something wonderfully Joycean—oceanic, indefatigable, slightly deranged—in the very quantity of data she has amassed. . . . To read Boddy's book is to confront dozens—hundreds?—of inspired mini-essays.

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