Rich Cohen
By Rich Cohen
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Culture Larry King wasn’t the only big shot from Bensonhurst
The author recalls the early days of the Warriors and his father Herbie Cohen, the world's greatest negotiator
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Culture Who’s To Blame For the State of Today’s NFL? Try Sid Luckman
The course of the current NFL season demonstrates the great flaw of professional football: The quarterback has become too important. Teams like Green Bay Packers or Chicago Bears lose a single player — Aaron Rodgers and Jay Cutler respectively — and the entire season washes out. To understand how this crazy state of affairs came…
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Culture ‘Telegraph Avenue’ of Broken Dreams
Telegraph Avenue By Michael Chabon HarperCollins, 480 pages, $27.99 It’s like Anton Chekhov said about a pistol appearing in the first act: If a hugely pregnant woman appears in the opening pages, you just know the water will break before you reach the end. That inevitability forms the through-line or engine, the great humming machine…
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Opinion Survival Is the Sweetest Revenge
When I was 10, my father recommended a movie called “Where Eagles Dare,” the story of a few Allied soldiers who go behind enemy lines during World War II and wreak incredible havoc. When I asked if it was any good, my father just gave me a look. “Four guys kill like a thousand Nazis,”…
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