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Colin Kaepernick: A True Dissident

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The Wild Nights of a Ballplayer in 1950s Manhattan

The Wild Nights of a Ballplayer in 1950s Manhattan

Just Another Night at Toots Shor's with Mickey Mantle and the Boys

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Our Tonya: Growing Up in Thrall to an American Antiheroine

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Tracy O'Neill on the Symbolic Heft of Tonya Harding

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Life in the Body of a Runner

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Kyoko Mori on the Meditative State of a Human Being in Motion

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