The Greatest Outburst in Sports History March 14, 2025
Pop culture has no shortage of memorable bowlers. Fred Flintstone. Homer Simpson. “Big” Ernie McCracken. The Dude. But no one on earth, imagined or real, has rolled quite like Pete Weber. ...
The Wunderkind Novel, Two Decades Later March 13, 2025
The heroine of Karen Russell’s new novel, The Antidote—her second—is a plucky teenage girl intent on excelling at a practice typically reserved for boys. This historical novel set in 1935 Nebraska also features a woman with the power to extract peopl...
Socratic Wisdom for a Lonely Age March 11, 2025
The Elks, the Shriners, and the bowling leagues are too far gone to be mourned. Even our dining has become solitary if our cultural commentators are to be believed. Office communities breathe on life support, as do many churches. Face-to-face interac...