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We think of the character as lithe and slim as the actors who’ve played him. But Shakespeare might not have intended him to be that way.

Inside the Nairobi Westgate Mall massacre.

The growing – and uneasy – alliances between the military and Silicon Valley.

Almost ten years after his kidnapping, a man writes to the people who threatened his life.

One Marine battalion has had four members kill themselves in just the last year. The soldiers have jury-rigged a system of Facebook notifications and Google spreadsheets to try to stop it.

Talking to Lee Daniels about Empire, Hollywood, and survival.

On the decline of nature, and our wonder at it.

No contemporary artist has used natural history to tell the kind of stories that painter Walton Ford tells.

“Over the years, it’s been hard to get male movie stars to be in a movie if a woman’s the lead, where a great, great movie star, a woman, will be in a movie where the man’s the lead. So there’s just not parity there, we’re not on equal footing.”

The delicate process of telling a ten-year-old she is HIV-positive.

In which Eliot analyzes Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and D.H. Lawrence.

A father’s attempt to combat the wage gap.

Ricky Williams today.

While a Marine stationed in Afghanistan, Austin Tice decided he wanted to become a war photographer. He entered Syria and filed stories for McClatchy and the Washington Post. Then he disappeared.

“He’d gotten hold of this notion that one times one doesn’t equal one, but two. He began writing down his logic, in a language of his own devising that he calls Terryology. He wrote forward and backward, with both his right and left hands, sometimes using symbols he made up that look foreign, if not alien, to keep his ideas secret until they could be patented.”

‘‘Just imagine what it was like to be him,’’ Walton added. ‘‘It was 50 years of him being 18 inches taller than everyone and having the brain that he had. Imagine being this jazz head coming up during black power. This is just a dude who has a different head.’’

A story of science, weirdness, and alternate realities.

What really happened at 2475 Glendower Place.

There’s a new endangered species in rural America: veterinarians.

Going “Full Mickey” at Disneyland.

The family accused of funding the Pakistani Taliban.

Who was Ashraf Marwan working for when he fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat?

After a non-profit’s documentary about a central African despot became the most viral video of all time, the founder had a nude nervous breakdown on the streets of San Diego. Now he’s back.

A profile of jailed trader Tom Hayes, who was either behind the Libor scandal or became its fall guy.