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• Juventus Sonata: Third Movement. The Land of Canaan (Andante Rubato)

  

  (Illustration: Franco Matticchio)Rarely did Franco Matticchio—a talented illustrator from Varese who is a regular contributor to L’Indice and ViviMilano, as wel... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Juventus Sonata: Fourth Movement. Still Life with a Title (Minuetto)

  

  In the catalogue of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam—where I had wandered senslessly until my feet and bilingual uncertainty reached a pitiful state—I found the... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2011 CULTURE

• Juventus Sonata: Fifth Movement. Old Friends (Adagio Ostinato)

  

  Alessandro Del Piero and Luigi Buffon—modern heroes, chosen with pride over a pyramid of soccer spoils casting glances against the dark-green curtains of... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2011 CULTURE, SOCCER

• Juventus Sonata: Second Movement. Eating the Pitch (Allegro, Ma Non Troppo –...

  

  Umberto Boccioni, Rissa in galleria, 1910 In 1861 Italy becomes a united nation, and the myriad of small states in which the country had been divided comes... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2011 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Romanian Folksong. An Expedition into the Cultural Delta of Oţelul Galaţi

  

  I. Like a Nijinsky Dance The city of Galaţi was, some would say still is, an unprepossessing place. This Romanian thoroughfare for such commodities as timber,... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Staff Picks: Pyramids, Russian Ballets, and Ephemeral Stadiums

  

  From a 1904 football game in Chicago to Turkey's all-women stadiums, through Herbert Chapman's Pyramids in the 1920s and Dynamo Moscow's English tour in 1945:... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2011 CULTURE

• Ecologies of Manchester City

  

  {in the thirteen species of ground-finches, a nearly perfect gradation may be traced, from a beak extraordinarily thick, to one so fine, that it may be... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2011 SPORTS

• Fleeting Comets #4: Oleksandr Zavarov

  

  Munich, 25 June 1988, final of the Europeans between Holland and the USSR: this date not only marks a great and well-deserved success by the Dutch in the... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Wings of Solitude: Alberigo Evani’s Daguerreotype

  

  Here we see a shepherd on a harsh stretch of land, standing next to an odd pair of white dogs—one crouched, the other with an half-open mouth, spitting out... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Things Seen from Right and Left

  

  Since beginnings cast a practical spell, like a slab of musique concrète of the late 1940s, which chimes with surrealist practice, I recently (re-)watched the... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Everton Boogie Woogie

  

  Some things haven’t changed. It says here, in this old-fashioned book, London: The Unique City, compiled by Steen Eiler Rasmussen in 1934 to educate and... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• After Makelele: Palladian Midfield Architectures

  

  A quasi-country gentleman of a player, who would command football’s classical heritage so as to lend an air of cultivated nonchalance to his pitch holdings, an... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Fleeting Comets #3: Claudio Borghi

  

  If you think about a meteoric landing in the Italian league, one can not mention Daniel Claudio Borghi, an Argentine midfielder born in 1964 and nicknamed “El... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• (Chel)sea Slumber-Song

  

  {For my part (. . .), I look at the natural geological record, as a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect; of this history... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2011 CULTURE, SCIENCE

• Mazzarri’s Geology

  

  Napoli's 'deep time' in soccer and armchair geology.Read More Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2011 CULTURE, SCIENCE

• Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (A Raddled Gasperini Portrait)

  

  Catacombs of Sousse, Tunis (Photograph: Daniel Mennerich)Listening to the first movement of Sibelius‘ Second Symphony I’m reminded of some geologic disturbance—... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2011 CULTURE

• The Mesmeric Spider and the Iron Cat

  

  When Borges wrote his Book of Imaginary Beings he forgot to include a chapter dedicated to soccer goalkeepers. A simple and consistent taxonomy classified them... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Fleeting Comets #2: Des Walker

  

  He was another example of an hopeful player who came from across the Channel into what used to be called ‘the most beautiful championship in the world’, failed... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Pulp History 1.05: The Master of Go

  

  Anight like this would frighten the impious. The familiar demons of sleep descended in full ceremonial attire, making the wind shriek past each doorway like... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2011 SOCCER