The Profound Silence of Marshawn Lynch
During the 2013 season, Marshawn Lynch, who was then the star running back of the Seattle Seahawks, stopped speaking on the record to the media. Most professional athletes treat their media obligations as a compulsory nuisance; some convey their annoyance by being terse or snarky. Lynch, who is known for his bruising play and his…
The Invention of the “Beach Read”
Summer reading—so much expectation and anxiety and judgment is compressed within those two words! June hardly has a chance to throw on a bikini and step onto the deck before morning shows, magazines, and Web sites descend with their “Beach Reads” and “Summer Reading Lists” and “Summer Fiction Top Tens.” Bookstores set up displays with…
Daily Cartoon: Friday, June 14th
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The 2019 World Cup Has Become a Referendum on Women’s Sports
The biggest story coming out of the United States’ 13–0 rout of Thailand in its first game of the World Cup was not the beautiful shot that Alex Morgan curled past the Thai keeper in the eighty-seventh minute, after controlling a high-bouncing ball, or Tobin Heath’s technical brilliance as she blew by the defense, or…
“The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of American Capitalism
During the financial crisis of 1873, an Austrian immigrant to Wisconsin named John Michael Kohler bought the Sheboygan Union Iron & Steel Foundry from his father-in-law and created the Kohler Company. The company hit it big with bathtubs, and, in 1899, Kohler bought land west of Sheboygan, which sits an hour up the coast of…
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, June 13th
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Joe Biden Bets on Being the Anti-Trump Candidate
There’s been some reporting that Donald Trump has privately expressed worries about facing Joe Biden in a general election. But, publicly, the two men seem to enjoy jawing at each other like a pair of prizefighters. “Look, folks,” Biden told a crowd in Davenport, Iowa, on Tuesday night, gripping his podium with both hands. “He…
“The Devil Never Sleeps,” Reviewed: A Mexican-American Documentary Filmmaker’s Rare Classic About the Mysteries of a Death in the Family
Click:silicone rubber insulator A rare classic of documentary filmmaking is screening at Anthology Film Archives this Saturday: Lourdes Portillo’s “The Devil Never Sleeps,” from 1994. The film, which is being shown as part of Anthology’s Home Movies: Filmmakers Document Their Families series, is centered on Portillo’s own narration of a family tragedy: the sudden and…
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 12th
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The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy
Nine months can make a person, or remake her. In October, 1997, Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for her first novel, “The God of Small Things.” India had just turned fifty, and the country needed symbols to celebrate itself. Roy became one of them. Then, in July of 1998, she published an essay about…