‘The Best American Sports Writing 2017’: The Power of the Pen in a Year of Unquiet Americans
"We sometimes project our problems onto sports," Louisa Thomas notes. "But sports can also be ... where we start to work them out."
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Is Humankind the New Planet and Species-Destroying Asteroid?
After fighting so long as a Cassandra of the coming ecological catastrophe, Elizabeth Kolbert's latest, The Sixth Extinction, embraces the long view of disaster.