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June 7, 2016
Erica Westly
When Softball Began to Play Hardball
Devised as an indoor sport for amateurs, softball has diverged into two different games—one slow, and one very fast.
June 7, 2016
Malcolm Forbes
How to Prosecute a War Criminal
Philippe Sands's new book is both a family memoir and a gripping courtroom drama.
June 6, 2016
Alex Shephard
Jonathan Franzen continues his campaign against cats by blurbing a book about how cats are bad.
June 6, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
RIP, Peter Shaffer.
June 3, 2016
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Do Our Stories Privilege the Upwardly Mobile?
America needs a new national story.
June 3, 2016
Alex Shephard
John Oliver has left “The Bugle,” the world’s best podcast.
June 3, 2016
Tim Grierson
Popstar: The Lonely Island’s Last Stand
Andy Samberg and co. gently parody the celebrity machine in 'Never Stop Never Stopping.'
June 3, 2016
Margaret Eby
Harry Crews’s Wild Ride
A new biography of the cult author shows that the most enduring character he created was his own.
June 3, 2016
Jeff Passan
The False Hope of Tommy John Surgery
How the surgical fix for an overworked elbow is creating more problems than it solves.
June 2, 2016
PodcastTim Grierson, Will Leitch
Grierson & Leitch Episode 19: X-Men: Apocalypse, Alice Through the Looking Glass, and Midnight Run
June 1, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
America, there’s more to life than breakfast.
June 1, 2016
Elizabeth Wilson
How an “Indecent” Outfit Revolutionized Women’s Tennis
The sport's role in liberating women from the passivity of Victorian society.
June 1, 2016
Kathryn Joyce
The Truth About China’s Missing Daughters
A new book debunks the myth that Chinese parents favored sons.
June 1, 2016
Tim Grierson
The Fits: Growing Up, With Dancing and Dread
A dance squad is struck by a mysterious illness in Anna Rose Holmer's intimate coming-of-age movie.
May 31, 2016
Alex Shephard
Braavos is the new Dorne.
May 31, 2016
Ryan Kearney
The Radiohead Racket
The real mystery behind Thom Yorke's lyrics: How come everyone thinks they're so profound?
May 31, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Oklahoma City Thunder blew it.
May 31, 2016
Malcolm Harris
Who Gets to Speak Freely?
Timothy Garton Ash's new book mounts an impassioned defense of free speech, but fails to reckon with its greatest flaw.
May 27, 2016
Jeet Heer
Peter Thiel’s Revenge Against Gawker Is Neither Justice Nor Philanthropy
May 27, 2016
Will Leitch
Alice Through the Looking Glass: Clocking In For a Dull Time
The sequel to Tim Burton’s 2010 film is an airless, joyless exercise in whimsy.

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