Lawyers Guns & Money favorites the Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera turned twenty (20!) on 9/11/2021. Patterson Hood’s account of the crazy, inspired thought process behind this
Well, hey there! In case you missed it, over at the Ringer, I wrote about Ted Lasso’s place in the grand tradition of “players coaches” like Joe Gibbs and “Sparky” Anderson: men whos
Thomas Boswell, a towering figure in sports journalism for decades, is retiring today from his job as a Washington Post columnist. Summarizing his legacy is a task better suited to a writer of greater
Over at the New York Times Magazine, I wrote about the hilariously norm-breaking rivalry between the muscular golfers Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau, and its implications for the sports world mov
Here’s two big ways to win big if you are looking for some solid music content: For those of you who like new-old things, I reviewed the new Joe Strummer compilation album Assembly for Pitchfork
Presidents Day is my favorite holiday for a number of reasons both personal and patriotic: it’s the best possible time for me to rattle off all of our presidents in order, a skill which along wi
As a longtime contributor to The Ringer and Cinema Scope, and author of 2018’s indispensable Coen Brothers omnibus This Book Really Ties the Films Together, Adam Nayman has a well-earned reputation
Over at Pitchfork, I wrote about the 50th anniversary of Roberta Flack’s extraordinary debut album First Take, a visionary masterpiece evoking both 1969’s Earth-bound nightmare of war and assa