John Feinstein was one of a kind. Take it from the guy who hired him.
Two years ago, when Bob Knight died, John Feinstein wrote: “Knight was an almost Shakespearean character: Brilliant, ...
What is a trans woman, really?
Jennifer Finney Boylan is president of PEN America. Her newest book is “ Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us.” ...
In ‘Firstborn,’ an author recalls the dream, and loss, of her daughter
Lauren Christensen’s memoir, “ Firstborn ,” begins with an epigraph from Louise Glück’s poem “The Wild Iris”: “Hear me out: ...
Edgar Allan Poe’s life was a mess. But his work was in his command.
A new biography, “Edgar Allan Poe” by Richard Kopley, is a sympathetic portrait of the horror master, connecting his life ...
‘Murder the Truth’ explores the campaign against the First Amendment
David Enrich writes about the broad legal and political efforts to use the courts as a cudgel against press freedoms ...
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Dan Balz
Before coming to The Post, he worked at National Journal magazine as a reporter and an editor and at the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the author of several books, including two bestsellers.
‘We haven’t reckoned enough with any of it’: 6 writers on the lockdown
We didn’t have choices — or, to put it differently, the choices were taken from us. In his book “ The Paradox of Choice ,” ...
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John Feinstein, bestselling author and one of the country's foremost sports writers, dies at 69
WASHINGTON — John Feinstein ... And that gained respect.” Another Post colleague, Dan Steinberg, Feinstein’s editor in recent years, said: “He would tell me, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m going ...
10 ways the covid-19 pandemic changed our lives
End-of-life conversations. Grieving for a lost sense of taste. A devastating side effect. And a new vision of the world.
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Greek fasolada is a soup to sustain you during times both good and bad
I’m Joe, the Food and Dining editor of The Post and the author of this weekly ... Vegetables star pretty much throughout the book, with an entire chapter that stuffs them and another one that ...
Charles Dickens’s Fagin gets rehabilitated, again
Allison Epstein’s “Fagin the Thief” is the latest work to reimagine a famously offensive character from “Oliver Twist” ...
John Feinstein, Who Wrote ‘A Season on the Brink,’ Dies at 69
A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, football and ...