It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium: Football and the Game of Life by John Ed Bradley

John Ed Bradley has written a love poem to football, to his coach (Charlie Mac), to his daddy, to the LSU Tigers, to his teammates, to the idea of being a member of a team, to grabbing your coach with one of those teammates and carrying him aloft from the field, to going to seed in the years after. ...

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When it comes to the past, give it to me distant and pale. Herodotus, for instance. You can't really argue with the guy. City-states, swinging militarily from one end of the Aegean to the other, shapes of cultural movements described dryly and without dense moral hand-wringing. I like that stuff...

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Saxophone nerd, heroin junkie, psychedelic warrior, holy man, mild-mannered suburban dad -- John Coltrane didn't just reinvent what we think of as jazz, he constantly reinvented himself in the process. And so in Coltrane: The Story of a Sound, by Ben Ratliff, we see Coltrane bursting with talent...

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It takes a rare writer to make a history of hydrology readable, let alone compulsively so. It takes a rare historian to convincingly argue that a nation's great water projects help define and shape its character. David Blackbourn is both. And his new book, The Conquest of Nature, proves it...

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Reading Crooked Little Vein, the first prose novel by renowned graphic novelist Warren Ellis, is like being hit by a truck -- a dark, perverted truck, that, if it's anything like the one described in the book, is full of blind men humping their seeing-eye dogs before being rear-ended by a Miata...

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It makes sense that Nicholas Kulish would write a pretty good novel about an embedded journalist in Iraq. When he worked for the Wall Street Journal, he was one. Recently named the New York Times Berlin bureau chief, Kulish focuses his book, Last One In, on a gossip columnist whose paper forces...

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The scene: England in the pre-swingin' 1960s. A young couple on their wedding night. They're virgins. He's about to explode. She's terrified. And we're along for the weird dance that ensues in Ian McEwan's new novel, On Chesil Beach. It's a bit voyeuristic. Borderline pervy. And if McEwan wasn't ...

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Don't let the cover fool you: The Headmaster Ritual by Taylor Antrim is not meant for a young adult audience. Yes, the story is set at an elite New England prep school. But instead of joining key club or debating the best coxswain for this year's crew team, these kids fight and hook up and debate...

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You don't put down Norwegian Per Petterson's new novel, Out Stealing Horses. Well, sometimes you do, because you have to, like when you're heading to the bathroom or to a sale at The Container Store. But you don't really, at least not in your head, because Petterson's prose sticks with you. Which...

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True story: It was sophomore year, in the cafeteria at Ross S. Sterling High School in Baytown, Texas. It was Tuesday, I remember that. I had a beat-up copy of Getting Even, by Woody Allen, that I'd been flashing around, trying to impress a girl named Priscilla, who was sitting across from me...

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