Yvonne Conza wrestles with the complexities of estrangement from her dying — complicated — dad.
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It’s Tennis, Charlie Brown
An obscure character was a stand-in for the creator of Peanuts when he fell in love with tennis during the sport’s boom in the 1970s.
Posted inBooks, Commentary
This Month in Books: ‘When Will I Be a Winner?’ or, ‘Mr. President, I Have a Headache’
In this month’s books newsletter, you’re going to get tired of winning.
Posted inBlog Post, Media, Unapologetic Women
Why Can’t Female Reporters Stay in the Picture?
Journalists who get screen time are most often men—even when the original story was told by a woman.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
A Journalist Takes Stock of His Formative Years
An experienced reporter looks back at the hard lessons he learned reporting from Eastern Europe during a politically tumultuous time.
Posted inArts & Culture, Commentary, Culture, Current Events, Story
Theatre of Wokeness
Are we having a surface-level reckoning?
Posted inNonfiction
If You Should Find Yourself in the Dark
Debbie Weingarten considers the anxieties of mothering and being human in a volatile world.
Posted inQuotes, Sports
When Staying Clean Isn’t an Option
Lance Armstrong ran a well-oiled cycling machine, and a well-oiled doping factory. Maybe those are the same thing.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Profiles & Interviews, Sports, Story
‘This is the Most Inexplicable Story in Sports of the Last 20 Years’
An interview with Erik Malinowski, author of ‘Betaball,’ which details the improbable rise of the Golden State Warriors.
Posted inNonfiction
The Unreliable Reader
In Esmé Weijun Wang’s book of personal essays, “The Collected Schizophrenias,” it’s the reader, not the writer, who is an unreliable narrator.
