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June 1, 2010
A Century of Harper's at the Ballgame
A new collection of essays from the venerable magazine gives sportswriting a good name.
Full article » | by Max Lakin
Sports
May 30, 2010
Geopolitics of the World Cup, or Why the US Doesn't Rule Soccer
On the eve of South Africa 2010, a father-and-son writing team parse the multivolume epic that is world soccer into a guide for uninitiated Americans.
Sports
May 30, 2010
Filipino Hoop Dreams
When he spent three years in the Philippines, writer Rafe Bartholomew found a basketball-mad nation in which the sport is deeply enmeshed in culture and politics.
Arts
May 17, 2010
The Game is Real, Sort Of
Philosophy professor Harvey Cormier examines the impossible reality of gallant Wire protagonist Omar Little.
Books
May 16, 2010
A Personal Journey Through Parasites
Parasitologist Eugene Kaplan tells Gelf about his life among the bugs and worms that inspired What's Eating You?
Books
May 11, 2010
Shit Justin Halpern Says
By mining his dad's cantankerous ramblings for Tweet-sized maxims, Halpern has become an internet celebrity, a published author, and the brains behind a new CBS pilot starring William Shatner. He tells Gelf how it all happened.
Sports
May 4, 2010
Violent Zen
Psychotherapist Binnie Klein explores her identity, her ancestry, and her relationship with her father by getting in the ring and throwing a few punches.
Full article » | by Max Lakin
Sports
April 30, 2010
Making the Case for Ivy League Basketball
Before Cornell's epic NCAA-tournament run, Kathy Orton spent a year following the Ancient Eight's men's college-basketball season, from a packed Palestra to near-empty arenas.
Sports
April 29, 2010
How the Press Broke a Record Breaker
In a new biography of Roger Maris, Danny Peary explores the slugger's contentious relationship with a press bent on protecting the marks and legends of prior Yankees greats.
Full article » | by Tom Flynn
Books
March 29, 2010
The Marathon Gene
Born To Run author Christopher McDougall tells Gelf why humans are the best endurance athletes in the world.
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