Category Archives: Features

The Bengals, Hamilton County, and the world’s worst stadium lease

Posted on 24 October 2011 by

[Cincinnati Magazine] Well, after a couple teasers — a miscellany of quotations from the county official who became a Bengals exec; an appreciation of Mike Brown as a “near-brilliant litigator” — my feature on the Bengals and their stadium lease … Continue reading →

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“I was always slightly less Foucauldian than I sounded”: A profile of Stephen Greenblatt

Posted on 2 October 2011 by

[The Boston Globe] In Sunday’s Boston Globe, in the Ideas section, I’ve got a profile of Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt. In his new book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Greenblatt writes about the fifteenth century’s rediscovery of Lucretius and … Continue reading →

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Notes on the Johnstown Flood National Memorial (and on David McCullough)

Posted on 29 August 2011 by

[The New Republic] The New Republic‘s just put out a special 9/11 issue, and I’ve got a feature in it on the long struggle to build the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. I don’t have a lot more to … Continue reading →

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The Reds, baseball’s attendance problem, and Cincinnati’s status as a “baseball town”

Posted on 1 July 2011 by

[Cincinnati Magazine] In the July issue of Cincinnati Magazine, I’ve got a long story on the Reds and their fans. It could have been much, much longer, as my (very gracious) editor can attest. Still, I managed to put a … Continue reading →

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Writing the Civil War

Posted on 8 April 2011 by

[Boston Globe] In this week’s Boston Globe — and exactly 150 years after the start of the Civil War — I’ve got a feature on the war’s impact on American literature. For pretty much all of those 150 years, people … Continue reading →

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