Longform

Possible clues about Lincoln’s murder in the unlikeliest place.

How coach Jurgen Klinsmann, “soccer’s Alexis de Tocqueville,” is trying to give the US an identity.

The creator of Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy offers advice to the Dartmouth class of 2014.

A portrait of Ben Todd, a DIY champion of the emerging music scene in Nashville.

The author remembers his stepfather, E.B. White.

The fall of billionaire Henry Nicholas, co-founder and CEO of microchip-maker Broadcom, who lost his job and his marriage amidst allegations of drug use, cooking the books, and building a secret party lair beneath the house he shared with family.

A trip to a Louisiana leper colony.

The early days of Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.

An American woman's travels and memories of her Russian husband.

Ted Nelson's Xanadu project began in 1960 and was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. It didn't go that way.

Update: The software was finally, quietly released in April.

The surprisingly difficult work of building bots that can walk.

How the Newtown Bee covered Sandy Hook.

Life on a weed farm in Humboldt County.

How a bipolar diagnosis follows you from the top to the bottom of professional basketball.

A memoir of Santa Cruz.

The railroad foreman’s brain was pierced by a tamping iron. He lived to tell the tale.

Inside the split of the Hoefler/Frere-Jones typography team.

An investigation into “Little Albert,” the famous test subject.

“What kind of a person looks upon the world’s largest land animal—a beast that mourns its dead and lives to retirement age and can distinguish the voice of its enemies—and instead of saying ‘Wow!’ says something like ‘Where’s my gun?’”

An interview with Curtis Mayfield.

Coming out in a country where that can get you killed.

The decade-long journey of a novel–Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding–through the unpredictable world of book publishing.

On wine’s sacred and profane history.