Last week, twenty Democratic candidates for President debated in the course of two nights in Miami. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren appeared to bolster their campaigns, with Harris, in particular, making headlines for her criticism of Joe Biden’s past opposition to school busing. Later in the week, Harris explicitly announced that she supports a return […]
They fell one by one—slipping on the slick grass, tumbling out of the draw. On the first day of Wimbledon, serving at 4–5, down two sets to one, the No. 5 men’s player in the world, Alexander Zverev, sprinted to his left to field a shot from Jiří Veselý, No. 124; his feet slid out […]
July 1st, the twenty-second anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong, formerly a British colony, to Chinese rule, began with a champagne toast between Carrie Lam, the city’s elected chief executive, and officials from China’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong, the local enforcers of Beijing’s will. The rest of the day was marked by a […]
Inflection points in the history of a sport, as in the history of anything, are seen clearly only in retrospect. Still, sometimes, you can feel in the moment that something is happening—a sense of import in the lead-up to the event, and then a sense of consequence in its outcome, beyond the scoreline. You think, […]
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Our young black king, the warlike Michael, entered stage left. His armor, stab-proof and street ready, bore upon it the rusted colors of his country, and, although he was young, no one in the field doubted that he looked the part. Kingly in every fibre, a “big man,” charismatic in body and word. Mighty he […]
Listen with: Click Here: Sports Water Bottles iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn David Rabe reads his story from the July 8 & 15, 2019, issue of the magazine. Rabe is the author of more than a dozen plays, including “Sticks and Bones,” “Hurlyburly,” and “Visiting Edna.” His novels include “Recital of the Dog” and “Girl by […]
Listen with: iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn For decades, critical praise for a TV show was that it was “not like TV,” but more like a novel or a movie. That ingrained hierarchy always bugged Emily Nussbaum, who went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for her criticism in The New Yorker. She has been compared […]
Oh, hey—great to see you! I’m a garden person now! I garden! I love it so much. I know what you’re thinking: What did she do before gardening? Have her zucchini blossoms popped yet? Does she know who took her watering can? Where does she keep her compost? The answer to that last one is: […]
“The Loudest Voice,” on Showtime, which sizzles forth the story of the Republican media consultant and reprehensible television executive Roger Ailes, opens, in 2017, with an image of his body sprawled on the floor and his brain dying of a subdural hematoma. In a voice-over, Russell Crowe, playing Ailes, anticipates his own obits: “I know […]