Selected Articles
Oh my name it is Marc Tracy, my age it means less. I work at Tablet, where I edit The Scroll, for which I won a National Magazine Award for Best Blogging. You can reach me at marc.a.tracy@gmail.com. And please do!
“Extra Innings” On Bottom of the 33rd, by Dan Barry, for the New York Times Book Review.
“Just Win” On Scoreboard, Baby, about the Washington Huskies football team, for the New York Times Book Review.
“It’s Only a Game. Isn’t It?” On four books about baseball, for the New York Times Book Review.
“The N.F.L.’s Highlight Reel” On Joe Garner and Bob Costas’ 100 Yards of Glory, for the New York Times Book Review.
“Music Chronicle” On a groupie memoir, Phish’s biography, and two other books, for the New York Times Book Review.
“Nonfiction Chronicle” On Michael Lewis’s Home Game and three other books, for the New York Times Book Review.
“Baseball Chronicle” On Bill White’s and Shawn Green’s memoirs, other baseball books, for the New York Times Book Review.
“Nonfiction Chronicle” On Michael Goldfarb’s Emancipation and three other books, for the New York Times Book Review.
“Nonfiction Chronicle” On Robert Dallek’s The Lost Peace and three other books, for the New York Times Book Review.
“Hail Victory!” On the Dallas Cowboys-Washington Redskins rivalry, the greatest in the NFL, for Grantland.
“Jewish Christmas” On the Brooklyn deli Mile End’s “Traditional Jewish Christmas,” which consisted of Chinese food, for Tablet.
“The Tenth Man” On the indelible Jewishness of Christopher Hitchens, for Tablet.
“The Joy of Stats” On how brainy Jewish fans like Mark Cuban have remade sports in their image, for Tablet.
“The Other League” On how the AFL’s Sid Gillman, Sonny Werblin, and Al Davis remade football, for Tablet.
“Higher Truth” On Ruth Franklin’s A Thousand Darknesses, for Tablet.
“Cowboy” On Jon Voight, uber-Zionist, for Tablet.
“Arizona’s Savvy Israel Ally” On Andrei Cherny, the political Tenenbaum child, for Tablet.
“Punchy” On Harold Lederman, boxing’s greatest treasure, for Tablet.
“Chuckles” On Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, for Tablet.
“On Cinematography” On Promised Lands, Susan Sontag’s 1974 documentary about Israel, for Tablet.
“Magic Number” On Red Holzman, the legendary New York Knicks coach, for Tablet.
“Why Cordoba?” On what the lower Manhattan Islamic center promises, for Tablet.
“Murder in Dubai” Everything you need to know about the crazy assassination of Hamas’s main weapons man, for Tablet. (Included in The Best Magazine Writing 2011.)
“War Diary of a Vampire” On The Midnight Guardian, a vampire-Holocaust novel, for Tablet.
“There’s The Rub” What’s the brucha for barbecue? For nextbook.org. (now known as Tablet).
“Speed Reading” On Once a Runner, the distance-running cult classic, for Slate.
“Other Magazines” Many, many of these, for Slate.
“Seasonal Migration of the Intellectuals” On The Flight of the Intellectuals, by Paul Berman.
“The Year of the Pass” On the 2009 NFL season and the then-forthcoming playoffs, for n+1’s Website.
“Even in Greenwich Village, D.C. Sportswriters Can’t Get Away from Dan Snyder” On Dave McKenna, Dan Steinberg, and the Washington Post, for Capital.
“Our Friends, Our Enemies” On David Kilcullen’s The Accidental Guerilla, for the New York Observer.
“A Lack of Resolution” On Aleksandar Hemon’s Love and Obstacles, for The Second Pass.
“Life in the Bubble” On Jonathan Dee’s The Privileges, for The Second Pass.
“Dodging Death in Pakistan” An interview with author Nicholas Schmidle, for The Daily Beast.
“Haunted by Civil War” On Antonio Muñoz Molina’s A Manuscript of Ashes, for the Village Voice.
“Lonesome Hobo Rides Everywhere” On William T. Vollmann’s Riding Toward Everywhere, for the Village Voice.
“Howling in Beirut” On Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game, for the Village Voice.
“It’s A Smart World After All” Cover story on the Committee on Global Thought, for The Blue and White.
“They Do It in Skates” Roller derby! For The Blue and White.
“Back to the Drawing Board” Interview with Art Spiegelman, for The Blue and White.
“The New Guy” Interview of Columbia Head Football Coach Norries Wilson, for The Blue and White
“In which our hero melts into air”, for The Blue and White. Of course, I didn’t write this—Verily Veritas did.
“In which our hero walks in the sun”, for The Blue and White. See above.
“‘Against the Day,’ at Night” On the midnight release of a new Pynchon novel, for nymag.com.
“Stephen Colbert’s Excruciating Brain Freeze” I talk to Stephen, Ben, and Jerry, for nymag.com.
“Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About ‘Sopranos’ Whackings” Terence Winter does not love Pussy. For nymag.com.
“These Ten People Want To Make Bloomberg President” This never really got off the ground I guess. For nymag.com.
“Partying Liberally With Living Liberally” Party report for nymag.com.
“Unsafe at Home” Natural disasters in New York, for New York.
“Unhappy Feet at Central Park Zoo” A zoo tour guide is fired, for New York.
Helping Friendly Blog Occasional longer thoughts.
