There is still enough summertime left for summer reading, and I have just the book in mind for those with an interest in the sweet science of boxing–or just in fine non-fiction. It’s called Cut Time: An Education at the Fights. You’ve never read anyone write about boxing like this. This is a masterpiece of deep research, acute observation and prodigious writing. It contains my favorite all-time description of the result of a punch: “It looked like he had been shot with a tranquilizer dart just as he stepped on a landmine.” And there is also a remarkable chapter that somehow succeeds in drawing a comparison between an aging boxer and an Italian grandmother. Who happens to be my grandmother. The author: a certain Carlo Rotella…