Month: September 2025

The Colorado Rapids live to fight another matchday, but seemingly just barely. A 1-all home draw to Minnesota on Saturday night felt like a must-win, despite the Rapids starting the night in…

Photograph courtesy of Patricia Lockwood. For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve contributed to our pages. Patricia Lockwood’s “Party in the USA”…

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — J.K. Dobbins has spent six long years in the NFL, a running back smart enough to make it to 26 in this league because of his vision between the…

Photograph courtesy of Celia Paul. This diary entry was written on November 15, 1978, just after my nineteenth birthday, before Lucian Freud took me to meet Frank Auerbach for the first time….

Pat Surtain II, his longtime trainer Chad Wilson likes to say, is the NFL’s version of Tony Gwynn. Or Wade Boggs. Both were perennial .300 hitters in the MLB. Both hardly ever…

From a portfolio by Jacques Hérold, originally published in the Fall 1961 issue of The Paris Review. In Jorge Luis Borges’s short story “The Ethnographer,” a white American graduate student named Fred…

Promising not to raise taxes if elected Colorado governor next year, Weld County resident, former county commissioner and State Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer announced she was entering the crowded race Tuesday evening, saying…

“This was my desk. Below the window is a children’s playground.” For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages….

As the days tick down until fans flood Empower Field again for Sunday’s home opener, the status of one of Denver’s free-agent stars remains in doubt. Inside linebacker Dre Greenlaw didn’t practice…

Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on…