An interview with William Gibson on the “dark, dark world of marketing, advertising, and trend forecasting.”

David Chang’s manic quest for a flawless restaurant.

Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong tabloid tycoon, thinks he’s found the future of journalism: an animation assembly line that can crank out clips recreating–or anticipating, or imagining–breaking news.

If you walk into New York’s best restaurants without a reservation, what does it take to get a table?

The poet and his love affair with Italian motorbikes (and also lots of women.)

A profile of Kanye West written in the style of an all-access magazine piece – using only quotes and statements that Kanye West has made on Twitter and other web outlets.

A 1993 profile of Ricky Jay, one of the world’s great sleight-of-hand conjurers, historian of unusual entertainments and confidence scams, and bibliomaniac; who rarely performs and never for children.

In 1978, as an 18-year-old living off the grid with her father in suburban Philadelphia, Dolly Freed wrote a guide to frugality called Possum Living. The book was a hit. Freed never cashed in.

Horror-rap’s annual festival draws thousands of clown-makeup wearing Juggalos – devotees of Insane Clown Posse – for a weekend devoted to spraying Faygo soda, rioting, and discussions of the occult.

Why our entire understanding of copyright is due for an overhaul.

When Bob Dylan met Allen Ginsberg; a chapter from Sean Wilentz’s forthcoming Bob Dylan in America.

Soap operas, enrollment in multiple graduate programs at once, student films alongside Hollywood blockbusters. Is James Franco’s entire career a piece of performance art?