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In 1979, Jonathan Schwartz wrote an essay recalling his experience of a 1978 Boston Red Sox-New York Yankees playoff game at Fenway Park. This vivid account ran originally in Sports Illustrated and has since been published as a book.  &nbsp...

By Ben Granger. Once pop, rock or one of its hybrid offshoots passes a certain critical mass of seriousness, it often seeks to transcend its simple origins, and lends itself open to the influence of other art forms; other art forms including literature...

This New Yorker story about a fatal police shooting could have seemed like “same old, same old.” After all, I’ve consumed (and sometimes written) countless death-by-cop sagas during my 50 years as a journalist. But Rachel Aviv’s narrative stands out...

Nothing is random. That masthead photo at the top of the page, which has been up there since early March 2007, is not just a sunset, it’s a political sunset. It’s sunset on June 12, 2004, looking northwest from Mulholland Drive out back,...

Welcome to the weekend. President-elect Donald Trump is in Bedminster, New Jersey, this morning, where he’s greeting a parade of potential administration appointees. The Guardian's Ben Jacobs, who is on pool duty in New Jersey, says that there might...