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June 10, 2014
The New Republic Staff
The 2014 World Cup, Illustrated: Hand-Drawn Match Highlights
Illustrations by Simon Prades
June 10, 2014
Howard Wolfson
How I Got My Soccer-Hating Son to Watch the World Cup
A sticky solution.
June 10, 2014
Miles Kohrman
The Smart Fan's 2014 World Cup Social Media Guide
All the feeds you need to be following, right now
June 10, 2014
Franklin Foer
Welcome to Goal Posts III
June 10, 2014
Luke Dempsey
21 Things That Must Happen During This World Cup
June 10, 2014
Joseph O'Neill, David Winner, Aleksandar Hemon, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Alex Bellos, Jess Walter, Rabih Alameddine, Tom Rachman, Laurent Dubois, Geoff Dyer, Supriya Nair
Eleven Writers and Intellectuals on the World Cup's Most Compelling Characters
June 10, 2014
Franklin Foer
Slavery, Sex and the Roots of Brazil's Transcendent Style of Soccer
Reflecting on my alternate life as a Futebol fanatic
June 10, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
Marijuana Might Make You a Worse Driver Than Alcohol Does
June 10, 2014
Adam Kirsch
A British TV Celebrity Called for a "Poetry Inquisition." He's Right.
How to make poetry relevant again
June 10, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
Saul Bellow's Ferocious Beliefs
Saul's particular combination of intellectuality and vitality was not paradoxical, it was category-shattering.
June 10, 2014
The New Republic Staff
Amanda Silverman Named Deputy Editor, Linda Kinstler Managing Editor, and Rebecca Leber Joins as Staff Writer
June 10, 2014
Alice Robb
How Realistic Are the Trained Cockroaches on 'Orange Is the New Black'?
Entomologists weigh in
June 10, 2014
Peter Gerstenzang
How Hollywood Gave Up on the Detective Story
Did 'Chinatown' doom the private eye?
June 9, 2014
Esther Breger
This Summer's Abortion Comedy May Save the Rom-Com
June 9, 2014
Hillary Kelly
This Is What Dickensian London Really Looked Like
Images of the squalor and sadness of Victorian life
June 9, 2014
Shaj Mathew
The World Cup Is About to Begin, and FIFA's Reputation Has Never Been Worse
June 9, 2014
Daniel Kay Hertz
Homicide Inequality in Chicago—In Maps
Murders have plummeted overall, but much of the city has seen only modest declines or stagnation
June 9, 2014
Jeet Heer
A Famous Science Fiction Writer's Descent Into Libertarian Madness
Robert A. Heinlein became increasingly right wing, and his novels suffered for it
June 9, 2014
Christopher Beam
Meet China's Tony Robbins
The predatory gospel of China's most popular motivational speaker
June 9, 2014
Jessica Grose
The Transgender Rights Movement Needs a Goofy, Basic Foundational Text
It worked for feminism

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