Tamim Ansary Recently, someone asked me what books have had a big impact on my life. I went blank for a moment, even though, until I was in my 20’s, I inhaled books the way speed addicts snort coke. Then a novel popped into my head: Death on the…
Todd Thomas There is no worse place for an NBA franchise to be than hopeless. Since their inception into the league in 1988, the Charlotte Hornets have usually languished at the bottom of the Eastern Conference, suffering endless embarrassment, both on the court and otherwise. From getting sold and…
What’s your earliest memory? Someone posed that question one day, when a bunch of us were sitting around chatting idly about life. I didn’t have to think about it. Or at least—thinking had nothing to do with what abruptly happened. An earliest-memory flashed up inside me immediately, bright with…
