The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game

Nick Paumgarten’s memoir of his consuming lifelong obsession with a game —hockey —its tribe, and its unreasonable demands.

Over the past two decades, Nick Paumgarten has become one of The New Yorker’s most admired and popular staff writers. He brings to journalism what great novelists bring to fiction: an instinct for character, a respect for complexity, and an eye for the telling moment. The Intangibles is his memoir told through the oddly illuminating lens of hockey. Not a book about hocke...