Magnus Carlsen left his lunch meeting and headed to the second day of the World Rapid Chess Championship. He said he changed ...

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The Sacramento Kings played and lost what threatens to be the last meaningful basketball game of their season on Thursday night. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that it may also have been the ...

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Basketball fans and league officials who were wringing their hands about the NFL encroaching on Christmas woke up on Wednesday to quite the treat. Spurs-Knicks was an incredible opener to an ...

At some point, I will write my screed against first-person fiction. Today is not that day, but nothing affirmed my opinion more than reading George Eliot's 1860 novel The Mill on the Floss. It's a ...