2 months ago

Adele, and the peculiar territory of not being heartbroken

Adele Photo: Marc E. / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Born May 5, 1988Tottenham, London, England Occupation Singer, songwriter Awards Grammy Awards · Album of the Year · Best New Artist · Academy Award · Best Original…

Sports 2 months ago

Novak Djokovic: tennis’ greatest champion, its most complicated figure

The statistics are not in dispute: Novak Djokovic holds more Grand Slam titles, more weeks at world No.…

Actors 2 months ago

Audrey Hepburn: what the camera saw and what the war left behind

The most photographed woman of the twentieth century carried in her body something the camera never captured: the…

Basketball 2 months ago

LeBron James chose a new team at 41. The scoreboard still matters

He has four NBA championships, four Finals MVP awards, and the all-time scoring record. He is also, at…

Soccer 2 months ago

José Mourinho and the second act that only Real Madrid could script

The Portuguese manager who won league titles in four countries and changed how European football thought about defensive…

Soccer 2 months ago

Mohamed Salah, Liverpool’s irreplaceable and Egypt’s unfinished story

For nine years, Mohamed Salah made goals look like weather — relentless, precise, and never quite what defenders…

Soccer 2 months ago

Harry Kane: how England’s record-scorer learned to win

For ten years, Harry Kane was the best striker in England — and arguably in Europe. He produced…

Soccer 2 months ago

Antoine Griezmann: the World Cup architect everyone underestimated

France's 2018 triumph had a face and a voice — Kylian Mbappé, electric at twenty. The player who…

Soccer 2 months ago

Gavi: winning a World Cup at 21 was never supposed to be the hard part

The Barcelona midfielder spent more time in operating theatres than on pitches in his first three seasons as…

Soccer 2 months ago

Pedri: the midfield argument injuries won’t let Spain close

The midfielder from the Canary Islands has won a European Championship and a World Cup with Spain before…

Soccer 2 months ago

Neymar: how Brazil’s greatest scorer left his biggest question unanswered

He became Brazil's all-time leading scorer, broke Pelé's record, and was sold to Paris for more money than…

Soccer 2 months ago

Jude Bellingham and the weight of England’s sixty-year wait

He became Birmingham City's youngest professional at sixteen, Borussia Dortmund's most expensive teenager at seventeen, and the midfielder…

Directors 2 months ago

Brian De Palma: the cinema that never learned to look away

Brian De Palma Photo: Gorup de Besanez / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Born September 11, 1940Newark,…