When I asked to interview him, I hadn't planned to talk about video games, or even considered the possibility that Tomlin, Super Bowl champion and hard-boiled leader of men, had been privately nursing an obsession with 'rooftop penthouses' and socially co... See more
Perhaps more than any other contemporary nonfiction writer, Michael Lewis has earned a living making esoterica not only legible but riveting. In his hands, the particulars of subprime mortgages and collateralised debt obligations (The Big Short), of baseb... See more
What's your relationship to criticism? Do you read reviews? No. I just have a rule. When did you institute it? It was when I read the review in The Wall Street Journal of Liar's Poker saying it was a boring book, and I thought, "I know there might be prob... See more
In June, at a reassuringly posh med spa called Suma Life House in Greenwich, Connecticut, I found myself thumbing through what’s called a “Journey Guide,” deciding whether I wanted to relax, release, recover or reconnect. While I weighed my options, one b... See more
If you have been following this year’s NBA playoffs and, like me, prefer to do so in the company of your fellow armchair-pundits on social media platforms like X and Reddit, then you have probably been exposed to the groaning of basketball fans who feel t... See more
