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Ed Smith

Ed Smith is a journalist and author, most recently of Luck: What It Means and Why It Matters (Bloomsbury, £8.99). He is a former professional cricketer and played for both Middlesex and England. He is on Twitter as @EdSmithWriter. 

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Books
The Outsider by Jimmy Connors: Is there a competitive advantage to “assholery”?
27 June 2013

Former tennis player Jimmy Connors' memoir has the ring of honesty, as though he is trying to be entirely straightforward.

Sport
A bastardised understanding of meritocracy has become part of bling self-indulgence
20 June 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Ideas
The Renaissance man should be celebrated, not dismissed as a dilettante
06 June 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Sport
In Britain, as in cricket, the north-south divide is as deep as ever
30 May 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Books
Ignore all The Great Gatsby hype, and read Fitzgerald’s wonderful essays instead
23 May 2013

The prose shines more brightly than any party on Long Island.

Media
Imagine if a government had solved everything it could: would hacks back off?
16 May 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Sport
One was a natural conservative with a deep respect for English traditions – the other was Mrs T
02 May 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Sport
The wonderful thing about Tiger Woods’s comeback is its very mystery
25 April 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

Music and Performance
The ultimate seduction: revisiting the case of Wagner
09 April 2013

Wagner aimed to overthrow 19th-century silliness and replace it with a new "music drama".

Sport
If superstitions help you get in the zone then keep sharpening those pencils
27 March 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.

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