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How do steroids feed into the American drive to win?

Conrad on young American virtuosos at home and abroad.

Perhaps his royal treatment will trickle down to MLS players, Conrad says.

Conrad proposes a European-style farming system.

The number of people who tune in for the World Cup indicates that there is a passion for the sport in the U.S. Major League Soccer just needs to tap […]

It’s all part of the game’s human element, Conrad says, even Zidane’s head-butt.

It all comes down to how the players learned to play the game.

Franz Beckenbauer heads the list.

Conrad is still learning the fine points of managing a team on the field.

Outsmarting Zidane.

Conrad had a Danish grandfather who showed him the ropes.

Neil Giuliano on celebrities and gay rights.

I look for the resurrection of the dead. A Jew hears about the three wishes and sayst to thegolden fish, “I want a Rolls-Royce, a house in Florida, fivemillion euros […]

As I drew nearer to the end of all desire..

The forgetting I notice most as I get older is really a form of memory: The undergrowth of things unknown to you young, that I have forgotten.

In the early winter dusk the broken city dark seeps from the tunnels.

Pinsky explains why people love cliché.

The lifers, Pinsky says, are the ones who write the best poetry.

When poetry is written in soap.

The multiplicity of memory.

It is the medium on a human scale, Pinsky says.

The distinction between poetry and rap lyrics lies in the performance.

Text is all around us, Pinsky says.

The closer you get to beauty, the harder it is to describe.

Any moment any person’s idea at any one moment, any artifact, if you could understand it well enough would be a portal into the whole rest of the universe.

Who’s more famous, Elizabeth Bishop or Vaughn Monroe?

“Nobody ever wrote sweeter poetry with a human voice” than the 16th and 17th-century poets.

Not ever word has a direct translation.

The former Poet Laureate describes how he knows a poem is finished.

Mixing Latinate and Anglo-Saxon words is a delightful sensation, like mixing smooth and crunchy.