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The Library of America’s newest sports anthology, Basketball: Great Writing About America’s Game, is out and…

My mother is Belgian and throughout my childhood we entertained relatives when they came through New York. Not just…

This looks like a movie for us. 

I love anthologies of magazine journalism but you don’t see them published much these days and that’s a damn shame.…

To celebrate Opening Day, dig into our trove of profiles of some of the game’s most enduring characters—from Ty Cobb…

....Is not to be missed.

Jimmy Breslin is dead at the age of 88. Dan Barry has a fine obituary in the Times:

The forthcoming Lee Morgan documentary will really blow you away. Meanwhile, listen to this.

Here are a couple of cool pieces from the novelist Richard Price: “Gorgo, Warhol, Rocky, and Me,” his funny and…

It’s been awhile but The Stacks is back and ready to roll. I’ve been keeping busy this past year editing and…

Muhammad Ali, the greatest athlete of the 20th century, was to writers of his time what the Madonna and Child were…

Rich Cohen writes books that are hard to put down. From Tough Jews and The Record Men to his hilarious memoir, Sweet…

And still champion...

Benjamin May’s documentary about Llyod Daniels—executive produced by Carmelo Anthony—will play tomorrow night at DOC:…

The good people at Taschen have decided to show us more of sports photographer Neil Leifer’s work, and this is a…

Mugged, mugging. I remember hearing those words all the time growing up. Always aware that it could happen, that it w…

Vic Ziegel got around. His career in journalism spanned more than 40 years. Vic worked at the New York Post, New…

The 25th edition of Houghton-Mifflin Harcout’s superior Best American Sports Writing series is out. The good folks…

One of the coolest things about Elmore Leonard’s crime fiction is that he didn’t get to it until he was close to 50…

A Siegel Film, Don Siegel’s account of his life as a film director is an entertaining and instructive guide to…