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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.
Sports
March 26, 2010
The Voice of Baseball Fans
Former Village Voice sports reporter Emma Span chose the wrong season to follow New York's bumbling baseball teams. So instead she turned her book inwards, on the life of a fan.
Sports
March 25, 2010
Brawls Over Baseball Bucks
Diamond historian Lee Lowenfish tells Gelf the sport's labor history has a way of repeating itself.
Full article » | by Max Lakin
Sports
March 1, 2010
NASCAR in the Rear-View Mirror
Sports Illustrated editor Mark Bechtel tells Gelf about his new meta-history of NASCAR, an American art form.
Books
February 2, 2010
The Thinking Man's Games
Malcolm Gladwell dishes on sports figures from Gary Bettman to Bill Simmons to Tim Tebow.
Sports
February 1, 2010
Chuck Klosterman's Wide World of Sports
The author of 'Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs' takes on gridiron dangers, Tiger Woods, and Leno-Conan.
Books
January 26, 2010
Brooklyn Brownstone or Bust
Home to the overeducated and overconcerned, Amy Sohn's Park Slope offers a union labor-certified piñata stuffed with liberal excess.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
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