From next week’s issue, online now: Marc Fisher uncovers the story of Horace Mann English teacher Robert Berman, who enthralled his favorite students with talk of poetry and art, but now stands accused of sexually abusing some of them. One alleged victim tells Fisher, “People think of child abuse as a moment in a shower, like Sandusky. They don’t think of it as essentially abducting and brainwashing. This was a cult of art, literature, and music…”

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Cartoon by Charles Barsotti. For more: http://nyr.kr/12VRXph

Similar to “The Newsroom,” “Sports Night” set its action within the production of a television show, a nightly sports-highlights broadcast. It was modelled on ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” which had made Olbermann a star, but which he quit in 1997, in one of the many bitter departures that would come to mark his career. “Sports Night” also introduced America to Sorkin’s distinct verbal rhythms, and retains a following.

Ian Crouch looks at video clips of Sorkin’s “Sports Night,” and analyzes how the show defined the “Sorkin Sound,” and gained a cult following: http://nyr.kr/LjHBKf

Emily Nussbaum on “Doctor Who,” “Community,” and the Passionate Fan: http://nyr.kr/KdTxdZ