A Short Excerpt From Every Piece In The Classical Magazine’s Baseball Issue

by The Awl

The “Boycott The Russian Olympics” Movement Is On — But Not Over Snowden

What Wave Of Feminism Did Your Favorite SATC Character Represent?

“As I’ve written elsewhere — and argued, often drunkenly, at cocktail parties — the four friends operated as near-allegorical figures, pegged to contemporary debates about women’s lives, mapped along three overlapping…

Tonight! Tao Lin ’n’ Pals; Colum McCann; Martin Amis and Ian McEwan; Veronica Gonzalez Peña

Elvis Costello And The Roots, “Walk Us Uptown”

S.E. Hinton Is 65

Susan Eloise Hinton turns 65 today. My personal favorite was That Was Then, This Is Now but you probably liked The Outsiders, or Rumble Fish, or maybe even Tex. Or maybe you’ve never even heard of S.E. Hinton, in which case you might be better suited reading a BuzzFeeᴅ list of late ’90s…

Rufus Wainwright Is 40

When We Want Your Opinion On The Royal Baby We’ll Beat It Out Of You, Just Like Mrs. Thatcher Would Have Wanted

Bethany Beach, Delaware, July 21, 2013

★★ The blue matting led through the dunes and into a white eastern glare that hit the face…

Bleakness Of Picture Depends On Where You’re Looking At It From

“It was only when I suggested that a mere fraction of the world’s Big Law firms would survive another decade or two that I grasped the bone-fatiguing chore of running such a business. Theiss wouldn’t endorse the premise…

How You Found Out About Stuff Before There Was Internet

“[F]or those of us who lived in flyover country in the mid-1980s — far from New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, or anywhere else that was happening at the time — associating with a scene required a fair amount…

There Is More Than Just Sperm On You

“Water vapor is not the only thing in that sopping summer air. It also contains aerosols — both solid and liquid. They may have condensed from the gases that emerge from your tailpipe or from a factory chimney, or they may have risen into the air from the ground…