I am not going to lie to you. I still haven’t finished The Power Broker. I will finish it, I promise. I just haven’t finished it yet. I have no defence. But in my defence, it is 1,162 pages long, not including the notes and index.
My paperback copy of it — and this isn’t a joke — requires genuine physical effort to pick…
Chris Jones
Chris Jones is a former staff writer at Esquire and a contributor to The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of, most recently, Legs Hearts Minds: Loss and Its Remedies.
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During last year’s eight-week Hockey Canada criminal trial in London, Ontario, when five former junior players stood accused of group sexual assault against a woman known as E. M., the TSN investigative journalist Rick Westhead was turned upon by a large man outside a courthouse elevator. “This is all his fault,” he screamed as he pointed a finger in Westhead’s…
Lorne Michaels likes to say, “The history of New York is written by out-of-towners.” Susan Morrison, in her affectionate biography, Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, writes that Toronto-born Michaels credits the line to Harold Ross. The founding editor of The New Yorker was, in fact, from Colorado. Morrison, who today is the articles editor at Ross’s now ancient…