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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 9, 2014
Shaj Mathew
The World Cup Is About to Begin, and FIFA's Reputation Has Never Been Worse
June 6, 2014
Shaj Mathew
Do U.S. Soccer Fans Steal Europe's Customs? Damn Right We Do!
A British writer calls American soccer fans “derivative, excessive and utterly ridiculous.” Those same adjectives apply to his essay.
May 27, 2014
Geoff Dyer
The Tragedy of the 2014 World Cup: Gareth Bale Won't Be Playing
May 21, 2014
Ryan Kearney
This Video of a Mobbed Subway Station in Brazil Should Frighten World Cup Fans
Video is available for this article
May 19, 2014
Danny Vinik
FIFA Needs to Take the 2022 World Cup Away from Qatar. Now.
May 11, 2014
David Thomson
Ninety-Six People Were Crushed to Death at a Soccer Game in 1989
The sport was changed forever
May 5, 2014
Geoff Dyer
An Unreal Photo of a Brazilian Soldier During a Pre–World Cup Favela Operation
November 26, 2013
Marc Tracy
This Is What ‘Progress’ Looks Like in Pre-World Cup Brazil
June 27, 2012
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
England's Squad
June 14, 2012
Rabih Alameddine
Those Dutch Boys
June 8, 2012
Franklin Foer
Eurovision
November 9, 2011
Komail Aijazuddin
Hero or Zero?
February 18, 2011
Bruce Katz, Owen Washburn
The Era of Divergence (and Distinctiveness)
December 3, 2010
Franklin Foer
The World Cup and Wikileaks: USA, 0-2
December 1, 2010
James Downie
The Little Emirate and the World Cup
July 13, 2010
Steve Wilson
George Carlin's Lost Soccer Routine
July 13, 2010
James Kirchick
A Reaction From the Streets of Catalonia

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