History
Le Large Opens Its Doors on Île Seguin
A brand-new contemporary art center opens its free opening weekend today on the island where Renault built the 4CV — 120 works, 55 artists, and a long-awaited second act for one of France's most storied industrial sites.
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Pétanque's Olympic Dream: The Long Road to Recognition
For forty years, the boules federations have knocked on the IOC's door — and watched breakdancing walk in instead. What the quest says about sport, legitimacy, and the French and American ways of wanting something.
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A Hundred Years of Pétanque
In 1907, a rheumatic man's friendship invented a sport. A century later, it is played on every continent.
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Pickleball's Unlikely Rise
Three dads, one bored summer afternoon in 1965, and a dog named Pickles. The fastest-growing sport in America was an accident.
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