John Swansburg

In “The Big Fella,” Jane Leavy demonstrates how the Bambino paved the way for every superstar to come.

In March, ESPN.com published a riveting account of perhaps the biggest coup in the history of branded sports apparel. As Ethan Sherwood Strauss reporte ...

Dear Hanna and Julia,

Dear Hanna and Julia,

It didn’t take long last night, after the news of Jon Stewart’s imminent departure from the Daily Show broke at roughly the same time as news of Brian ...

The following post contains spoilers. One of the pleasures of Red Hook Summer, which opens in New York today, is the opportunity to check in on some ol ...

In 1990, Susan Orlean published a book called Saturday Night, in which she set out to document how Americans spend their weekly reprieve from work. “Sa ...

ABC, Feb. 22, 9:36 p.m. I took one look at Happy Endings when it debuted two years ago and dismissed it as the latest in a long, disappointing line of ...

This could be the shortest ever installment of “Where Do I Start With?” The place to start with Nas is unquestionably Illmatic, his 1994 debut album. A ...

See all of Slate’s coverage of Mad Men, Season 5 here.

I agree, Julia—“the talk” was masterfully written and acted. I’m not sure I’m ready to bestow Clooney status on Jon Hamm, but he did show me something...