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June 13, 2014
Matthew Niederhauser
Striking Images of Brazil's Love-Hate Relationship with This World Cup
Matthew Niederhauser's photo diary: Day One.
June 13, 2014
Shaj Mathew
Robots Might Be Smart, But They're Terrible at Soccer—and They Flop, Too
A report from an awkward, adorable robot-soccer match
June 13, 2014
Ilan Stavans
God Uses the World Cup to Teach People Geography
June 13, 2014
Chris Oates
Should FIFA Be Run Like the Eurovision Contest?
A political analyst on how to reform the corrupt World Cup
June 13, 2014
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
How Much Technology Is Too Much Technology for Soccer?
Let's not go to the videotape.
June 13, 2014
Chloe Schama
These Faceless Women Are Utterly Unique
June 13, 2014
Blaine Greteman
It's the End of the Humanities as We Know It
And I feel fine
June 13, 2014
Alice Robb
Soccer Ball Manufacture Is Inefficient. Here's Why.
June 13, 2014
Laurent Dubois
The World Cup of Dissonance
Yesterday's opener proves that we don't know what to expect from this World Cup.
June 13, 2014
Fernando Rodriguez-Vila, Joseph O'Neill
Spain-Holland Preview: Can a Band of Hungover Dutchmen Defeat Tiki-Taka's Trotsky?
Nando Vila and Joseph O’Neill dissect Friday's Group B clash
June 13, 2014
Jed Perl
The Art World Has Stopped Distinguishing Between Greatness and Fraudulence
And it's costing us
June 12, 2014
Evan Hughes
Vanity Fair's Donna Tartt Piece Reduces All Literary Criticism to Childish Squabbling
June 12, 2014
Laurent Dubois
A Prayer for the Goalies and Referees of the World Cup
Let's take a minute to remember the perennial villains of the game.
June 12, 2014
Jess Walter
The Real Reason There Were No American Players on the 'Most Compelling Players' List
June 12, 2014
Alex Massie
Why You Should Hate Team USA
Or maybe just American soccer fans
June 12, 2014
Alice Robb
Watching Your World Cup Team Triples Your Chance of Having a Heart Attack
June 12, 2014
Ilan Stavans
Why Has Literature Ignored Soccer?
June 12, 2014
Charles Wright
Today and Yesterday
June 12, 2014
Christopher Ketcham
The Troubling Case of Chris Hedges
Pulitzer winner. Lefty hero. Plagiarist.
June 12, 2014
Simon Critchley
Why There Is No Such Thing as a Bad World Cup
A philosopher's theory of soccer fandom

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