<div><p>Two days after the Super bowl (i.e., doing our laundry to a wistful mix of Cat Power to drown out the sound of the Super Bowl), those who care about athletics are still inserting themselves into everything: A bevy of professional athletes congregates at the Grand Hyatt for the 29th Annual Thurman Munson ...

<div><p>Perhaps it's just me, laid low by the onslaught of autumn, but the recommendations for last week's memory theme felt unusually dispiriting. Even when a song's lyrics recalled happy times, it was chiefly because they had passed, or compared unfavourably with the present. I got to the point where a lovely ...