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June 11, 2014
Aleksandar Hemon
Bosnia Suspends Pickup Soccer Matches to Watch Its Dragons Instead
A World Cup debutante savors its arrival on the big stage
June 11, 2014
Tim Fernholz
Not One Compelling American on the 'Most Compelling Players' List?
U.S. players deserve a lot more credit
June 11, 2014
Jess Walter
Why Cameroon Will Beat Mexico on Friday
The Lions' secret advantage: the spirit of the oldest player to ever score in a World Cup
June 11, 2014
Fernando Rodriguez-Vila
All You Tiki-Taka Haters Are Just Jealous
Like it or not, possession still wins matches
June 11, 2014
David Thomson
Norman Mailer's Hollywood: Antiquated, Perverse, and Much like Ours
The perpetual wisdom of 'The Deer Park'
June 11, 2014
Simon Schama
This Is the Team That Actually Invented Total Football
They did it in stadium known as Wankdorf (some things a nine-year-old doesn't forget)
June 11, 2014
Rebecca Traister
Hillary Clinton's Memoir Isn't Terrible at All. It's Fun and Even a Little Weird.
June 11, 2014
Leon Krauze
The Pleasures of Rooting Against Brazil
No team has ever acted so entitled to World Cup glory.
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

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