Michael Waters

Jun 4, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Waters |Scottie Pippen |Michael Arkush |Jeff Benedict

Basketball fans will enjoy Pippen’s bird’s-eye view of some of the sport’s greatest contests. The Chicago Bulls stalwart tells all—and then some. Hall of Famer Pippen opens with a long complaint: Yes, he’s a legend, but he got short shrift in the ESPN documentary about Michael Jordan and the Bulls, The Last Dance. Given that Jordan emerges as someone not quite friend enough to qualify as a frenemy, even though teammates for many years, the maltreatment is understandable.

Nov 24, 2023 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Amanda Mull |Simon Montefiore |Michael Waters

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Today, we’ll introduce you to The Atlantic’s time machine. Plus, our editors selected seven great reads for you to dive into this weekend.

Nov 12, 2023 | bookshop.org | Michael Waters

"A deftly written and engrossing book that shows how sport has always been a lightning rod for society's worst instincts about how to treat trans people." --Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post "Waters traces this history thoughtfully, and meticulously, revealing how much about this recent and relevant past we have forgotten, or never knew." --The New Yorker "Cinematic . . .

Oct 21, 2023 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Michael Waters |Charlie Warzel |Isabel Fattal

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. “I wonder whether the non-photographer can grasp the peculiar quality of the pleasure of being an amateur photographer,” Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of the publishing house Simon & Schuster, wrote in The Atlantic in 1942.