Allen Barra

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  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Allen Barra, author of a new Bear Bryant bio, on the coach's greatness, his mystique, "The Junction Boys" and his moral failure -- and success -- on integration.
    August 26, 2005

  • Shadow man

    In "King of the Jews," Nick Tosches takes on Arnold Rothstein, the legendary gangland figure who fixed a World Series, mentored young hoodlums, and inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald.
    By Allen Barra July 12, 2005

  • Angelina Jolie's Hollywood exile

    The most ferocious performer on film today is proof there are still big stars -- it's the pictures that got smaller.
    By Allen Barra June 11, 2005

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Danica Patrick brings long-lost sizzle to the Indy 500, and not just because of those bikini pix. Plus: Heat win, but they're still in trouble. And: The mystery of "his'n."
    May 26, 2005

  • The great Dane

    It's time we let beloved children's author Hans Christian Andersen sit at the big kids' table.
    By Allen Barra May 13, 2005

  • "Saturday" by Ian McEwan

    The story of a middle-aged man seeking his moral compass in the post-9/11 world, isn't about fear or dread but the attainment of joy.
    By Allen Barra March 20, 2005

  • Better than green beer

    Flann O'Brien was a curmudgeonly alcoholic failure, Ireland's best kept literary secret, and the perfect way to celebrate the luck o' the Irish.
    By Allen Barra March 17, 2005

  • The boxer

    F.X. Toole never lived to see his best story, "Million Dollar Baby," made into a movie by Clint Eastwood. Wouldn't it have been nice if someone had thought to thank him on Oscar night?
    By Allen Barra March 1, 2005

  • From "Red Harvest" to "Deadwood"

    How Dashiell Hammett's first and most important novel eluded film adaptation and still managed to find its way onto the big -- and small -- screen.
    By Allen Barra February 28, 2005

  • The greatest Christmas story of all

    Forget Scrooge and Tiny Tim -- James Joyce's "The Dead," with its distinctively Irish blend of music and tragedy, is the ultimate yuletide tale. And why isn't John Huston's marvelous film version available on DVD?
    By Allen Barra December 14, 2004

  • The rebel

    The political right and left have been fighting for Albert Camus' legacy, but Europe's most influential literary export remains stubbornly elusive.
    By Allen Barra November 1, 2004

  • Not quite enough A.J. Liebling

    The man who brought journalism into the modern age enjoys another revival. But why is some of his best writing buried, while his worst writing is celebrated?
    By Allen Barra September 23, 2004

  • "Borges: A Life" by Edwin Williamson

    Jorge Luis Borges went from being an unknown middle-aged librarian to one of the 20th century's most influential writers. So why do so few people read him now?
    By Allen Barra August 27, 2004

  • "Notes From Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Forget Constance Garnett -- the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation makes the most cryptic of existential cult classics stranger, funnier and more alive than ever
    By Allen Barra May 27, 2004

  • American idols

    Davy Crockett and Wild Bill Hickok spurred generations of boyhood fantasies. The dark side of these cowboy heroes depicted in "Deadwood" and "The Alamo" are just what America needs to see today.
    By Allen Barra April 10, 2004

  • The moralist

    The exciting new translation of "The Red and the Black" blasts Stendhal into the 21st century.
    By Allen Barra August 21, 2003

  • Our man in tights

    In "Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography," author Stephen Knight explains why the 700-year-old prince of thieves is still our hero.
    By Allen Barra July 23, 2003

  • The natural

    The re-release of Kevin Baker's 1993 novel "Sometimes You See It Coming" puts the best baseball novel ever written back in play.
    By Allen Barra July 1, 2003

  • The gentleman general

    Humorist Roy Blount Jr.'s slim biography of Robert E. Lee is touching and comprehensive, but he misses the boat on the Southern warrior's military genius. Most historians do.
    By Allen Barra June 9, 2003

  • "Kingdom of Fear" by Hunter S. Thompson

    In his new memoir, gonzo pioneer Hunter S. Thompson works hard to get us riled up. But without Dick Nixon to kick around, he offers little insight into our times.
    By Allen Barra March 31, 2003

  • Do away with athletic scholarships

    If it really wants to clean up the corrupt mess that is college athletics, the NCAA has to be prepared to go all the way. Plus: A goodbye.
    By Allen Barra March 15, 2003

  • David Wells, the un-scandal

    If the Yankees ace pitched a perfect game while hung over, then how about a bottle for everyone on the staff?
    By Allen Barra March 8, 2003

  • Sack college football, not Title IX

    Don't blame the law that opened up sports to women for the demise of men's sports programs -- blame the good old boys who won't touch the biggest cash drain, football.
    By Allen Barra March 1, 2003

  • A breakthrough basketball book

    John Hollinger's analysis does for hoops what Bill James did for baseball.
    By Allen Barra February 14, 2003

  • LeBron James, the revolutionary

    A big legal win by the high school hoops star could be a damaging blow to the plantation system known as amateur athletics.
    By Allen Barra February 8, 2003
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