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Will I Have Anything to Re-say About Sports?: The NBA/NHL/MLS/World Cup and Cable TV
By Jill MagiHold onto your protective gear because this column races quickly through notes on the NBA finals, the NHL Stanley Cup, the Red Bull Arena debut, and a bit of World Cup coverage.
The View from New Orleans
By Vincent RossmeierBy now, you’ve seen the photos, read the news stories, and heard the measured—and not so measured—opinions of experts focusing on the April 20 BP explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig, where oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico.
Letter from the Gulf: The View from Plaquemines Parish
By Vanessa TolinoWhile driving down from New Orleans to Venice, “ground zero” of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, I heard Parish President Billy Nungesser on a local radio show.
In Conversation
WE AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET: Gwynne Dyer, In Conversation with Robert S. Eshelman
By Robert S. EshelmanIn Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats (Oneworld, 2010), international affairs journalist Gwynne Dyer offers bleak predictions
A New Lesson Plan
By Richard GreenwaldMention the name Diane Ravitch to anyone involved in American education and you are sure to get a visceral response.
Vollmann Goes East
By Adam P. FrederickA short introduction serves as an apology for the “string-ball of idle thoughts” that is William T. Vollmann’s newest, Kissing the Mask, a book which perhaps warrants an apology.
ARCHIVES: Best of a Decade
By Theodore Hamm and Williams ColeThis October marks 10 years in print for The Brooklyn Rail.
The Happiest Uprising on Earth
By Ryan GrimIt's Memorial Day weekend of 2005 and I stick two fingers in a scanner that takes an electronic picture of my fingerprints.
Message from My Uncle Peter
By Williams ColeI have a relic of sorts that I hold dear. It’s a green foam beer cozy, worn thin from carrying hundreds of bottles of Michelob.
Happy Trails, Sort of
By Christopher MichelThe comics medium and the memoir genre are very well suited to each other.
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