Djokovic and Relics

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The Darkness That Drives Djokovic

Iza Ding | New Lines | 3rd September 2026

Sympathetic take on Novak Djokovic's position as tennis's ungraceful outsider in an era when the top two players — Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal — embodied "the two ideal types of Western masculinity". With fans and other players, Djokovic quickly gained a reputation as the "party crasher" and received boos from the stands. In response, he "perfected the trick that would turn hostility into fuel" (3,000 words)

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Does Lenin’s Body Count?

Meduza | 4th September 2026

The timely "rediscovery" in Moscow of the remains of a canonised 14C army commander, Prince Dmitry Donskoy, has reignited Russian passion for saints' relics. Putin took part in a public veneration and a fragment is headed to the Ukrainian front. This writer digs into the contested history of such worship and its fraught relationship with science. Churches only sometimes like DNA evidence (2,400 words)

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