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‘The Best American Sports Writing 2017’: The Power of the Pen in a Year of Unquiet Americans
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‘The Best American Sports Writing 2017’: The Power of the Pen in a Year of Unquiet Americans

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 / 20 December 2017

"We sometimes project our problems onto sports," Louisa Thomas notes. "But sports can also be ... where we start to work them out."

Is Humankind the New Planet and Species-Destroying Asteroid?
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Is Humankind the New Planet and Species-Destroying Asteroid?

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 / 21 March 2014
After fighting so long as a Cassandra of the coming ecological catastrophe, Elizabeth Kolbert's latest, The Sixth Extinction, embraces the long view of disaster.
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‘The Story of America’: The United States of Amnesia

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A Good Talk: The Story and Skill of Conversation by Daniel Menaker

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 / 13 April 2010
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The Best American Non-Required Reading 2009 ed. Dave Eggers

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 / 28 March 2010
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I Love You, I Hate You, I’m Hungry

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 / 15 March 2010
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Cheever: Straight No Chaser

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 / 4 March 2009
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The Poetry that Lingers in a Clipped Article

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 / 28 August 2007
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Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell by Bruce Eric Kaplan

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 / 13 June 2007