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SI's Provence Bureau Chief

Sports Illustrated writer S.L. Price spent a year in France covering non-US sports for America's biggest sports magazine. He came out of it with an unexpected, unconventional memoir.

Books

Frank Deford's Fellow Traveler

The veteran Sports Illustrated writer tries his hand at baseball fiction.

Nightlife

Air Guitar Hero

Gelf learns how the big boys swing the imaginary axe at the US Air Guitar Championships.

Books

Trying to Understand Clarence Thomas

Thomas's biographer talks to Gelf about the strange inconsistencies and inner turmoil of the most politically conservative Supreme Court justice.

Arts

Hip-Hop's Ghostwriters

Is it fair for big-shot rappers to pay up-and-comers for their lyrics, but then give them no songwriting credit?

Sports

Buck O'Neil's Baseball Journey

His biographer, who spent 16 months traveling with the distinguished former Negro League player, tells Gelf why there was no better ambassador for the national pastime.

Sports

Carlisle's Football Laboratory

Richard Henry Pratt's school was founded as a daring experiment. It eventually bred Native American pride and gridiron innovations he could never have foreseen.

Sports

A Year Inside the Green Monster

A year after their championship, the Red Sox opened their doors to journalist Seth Mnookin and shared their secrets. No one in the organization was fully pleased with his resulting book.

Science

Staying Awake by Switching Brain Hemispheres

New sleep-deprivation record holder Tony Wright tells Gelf he's altered his brain chemistry and thus can stay up indefinitely.

Arts

Picking Up What They're Laying Down

Gelf gets the scoop on the biggest he-stole-she-stole song plagiarism debates of the last half century.

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