On trying, and failing, to qualify for the USA Olympic Marathon Trials.

In 2005, Vanessa Mitchell moved into her dream home, a former medieval jail where England’s witches waited to hang and burn. When paranormal phenomena forced her to flee, she became convinced it was possessed by evil spirits.

In 1944, an eighteen year old boy became famous for throwing eggs at Frank Sinatra. Then he disappeared.

Myth, storytelling, and lore in the most disappointing clubhouses of America’s pastime.

A portrait of a modern family undone by the political zeitgeist.

How demons destroyed a Florida school.

A return to old habits post divorce.

What the author learned about himself from Jill Abramson’s Merchants of Truth.

When Swedish teenagers hacked the phone system and turned a state-owned telecom system into a proto-Internet.

An undercover federal agent behind a massive sting operation that took down dozens of gun-runners and drug-dealers tells all.

On parenting a sick child.

“This is the story of the past three years of my life. It’s romance in a way, but it’s also a breakup story.”

On getting weight reduction surgery.

“We must be grateful for the smallest of blessings. Last week I saw and heard some things that provided a measure of hope and nuance in these grim and hysterical times.”

What motivates men like Harvey Weinstein?

“What happens when the thing that might save you is also the thing that might destroy the world?”

"4chan value system, like Trump’s ideology, is obsessed with masculine competition (and the subsequent humiliation when the competition is lost). Note the terms 4chan invented, now so popular among grade schoolers everywhere: “fail” and “win”, “alpha” males and “beta cucks”. This system is defined by its childlike innocence, that is to say, the inventor’s inexperience with any sort of “IRL” romantic interaction. And like Trump, since these men wear their insecurities on their sleeve, they fling these insults in wild rabid bursts at everyone else. Trump the loser, the outsider, the hot mess, the pathetic joke, embodies this duality. "

The writer reconnects with an old acquaintance who ten years earlier committed one of the most notorious crimes in New York history.

What really happened at 2475 Glendower Place.

How an Italian businessman facing fraud charges and a Brazilian politician turned a billion dollar project to build the high speed Rio-São Paulo rail line into a farce.

Scenes of grief, from the sister of comedian Harris Wittels.

Three brothers, imprisoned and hunted by a cruel knight.

"Who am I? I do not know how he changed our names. But in this world of lions and giants and the blinding shine of armor, I am called Joyless, as if it were a name."

The art of the voiceover.

A pair of hardware hackers bond and brainstorm.

"I grabbed a corner and walked backward. The box was heavy, but it was mostly just huge, and when we reached his beat-up minivan, he kicked the tailgate release and then laid it down like a bomb-disposal specialist putting a touchy IED to sleep. He smacked his hands on his jeans and said, 'Thanks, man. That lens, you wouldn’t believe what it’s worth.' Now that I could see over the top of the box, I realized it was mostly padding, layers of lint-free cloth and bubblewrap with the lens in the center of it all, the gadget beneath it. "

The rebirth of the World Trade Center.