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NFL sports football history book

If you love the NFL, read Peter King’s ‘The Game’

Michael Taube · October 25, 2026 6:50 am

A worker adjusts the paitning "Nighthawks" by famous U.S. artist Edward Hopper.

Edward Hopper, flaws and all, sketched in new biography

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‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson offers a new essay collection

The Monkees (from left, Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and Micky Dolenz) pose with their Emmy award on June 4, 1967. They won for best comedy series and best comedy direction for their television program The Monkees. (AP Photo)

The only band that ever mattered was … the Monkees

U.S. Marines flinch as shell booms from the tube of their mortar on a sweeping operation south of Da Nang, South Vietnam on Dec. 1, 1966, in an area believed to be under strong Vietcong influence. While the mortar is capable of being hand-held, it is normally placed on a heavy base plate to stand on its own. (Dang Van Phuoc/AP Photo)

When the Army calls, heroes answer

Good vibes, murder, and a monkey make for a satisfying Carl Hiaasen adaptation

J. Oliver Conroy September 6, 2024 5:28 am

Hearing from the collateral damage in Ukraine

Malcolm Forbes September 6, 2024 5:26 am

Projecting a New York experience onto Flannery O’Connor

Micah Mattix September 6, 2024 5:22 am

Alien litigates the pandemic

Graham Hillard August 23, 2024 5:58 am

The continental divide in types of scary

Rob Long August 23, 2024 5:53 am

The NFL’s Ship of Theseus

Ben Jacobs August 23, 2024 5:41 am

Jeff Buckley’s Grace at 30: A terrific album that is also the most overrated in history

Alexander Larman August 23, 2024 5:40 am

In Burn, Peter Heller walks a fine genre line through dystopian fiction

Malcolm Forbes August 23, 2024 5:22 am

Survival at sea: Shipwreck in the South Atlantic

Michael Taube August 23, 2024 5:19 am

Palestinians wave their national flag and celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank.

Adam Kirsch diagnoses postcolonial theory and the morally inverted world

Micah Mattix August 23, 2024 5:17 am

The deeper meaning of Love Island USA’s runaway success for our era of TV

Kara Kennedy August 23, 2024 5:14 am

An emoji with a black rectangle over its mouth with chat bubbles and people in the background.

Does it take a government to censor?

Oliver Traldi August 16, 2024 6:06 am