This Love Is Not For Cowards

Perched on the border across from El Paso, Ciudad Juárez has been buffeted by Mexico's narco war for years, but that hasn't stopped the city from embracing its hometown soccer team, the Indios, and their fervent fanbase, El Kartel. In this gritty account of a single season, Robert Andrew Powell travels the country with the team and reflects on a nation torn asunder by drug-related violence -- yet united in its love of sport.

May 21: The musical smash hit Gypsy opened on Broadway on this day in 1959. The bestseller upon which the show is based, Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir Gypsy, told her life as a rags-to-naked success story, and added to…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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