The Siamese Twins
On Darin Strauss’ novel Chang and Eng
The New York Times
Book Review

The War on Christmas,
the Prequel

When the holiday
was banned
Slate

The Plot Against
Against Philadelphia

A supersoldier defends the Liberty Bell
The New York Times
Book Review


The Epistles of Pals
Reading the letters of Walker Percy and Shelby Foote
Commonweal


No Way Out
A review of Tom LeClair’s novel Well-Founded Fear
The New York Times
Book Review

Free at Last
Meeting Barbara Chase-Riboud's Hottentot Venus
The New York Times
Book Review

The Bad Boys of Summer
Reconsidering Jim Bouton’s Ball Four
The New York Times
Book Review


Game Dad
When fatherhood means acting like a five-year-old
GQ

The Sin Box
Why have Catholics
stopped lining up at the Confessional?
Slate

Get Lent
Protestants do the
sober season
Slate

Hands Across
Catholic America

Should churchgoers hold
hands during Mass?
Slate


Signing Off
Reading the signs of the times in Chicago parks
The Chicago Reader


Who, Me? An
Overinvolved Dad?
On never missing a
t-ball game
The Christian Science Monitor


Walking Tall
Why world leaders love cowboy boots
GQ


Rest in Pieces
In praise of the Louisville Slugger
GQ

Wild in the Street
Tracking the wily coyote
with a latter-day trapper
GQ


Roman Holiday
Understanding indulgences
The New York Times Magazine


His Imagination Ran Wild
How landscape architect Alfred Caldwell brought
the prairie to the city
The Chicago Reader


Diamonds in the Rough
A season with a Chicago softball team
Chicago


Booster Blues
Courtside with a college basketball backer
Chicago


Da Bears
Why the ’85 Chicago Bears never won again
GQ

No Time for You
The age of emotional professionalism
Notre Dame Magazine


Confessions of a
High School Fencer

Taking a stab at an overlooked sport
Details


Bear Down
Decatur wants its team back
GQ

The Math Evangelist
Changing young lives
in math class
Prospect

 

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