A profile of a 25-year-old Spanish sensation.

A profile of Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings.

A profile of Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald during its heyday.

At age 17, Bonnie Richardson won the Texas state track team championship all by herself. Then she did it again.

“I admit it,” she says, in her hotel room. “I’m a troll. I’m the queen of the fucking trolls.”

A profile of the director and actor.

How do you move on from being the best?

On conservative radio host John Ziegler and “the strange media landscape in which political talk radio is a salient.”

What happened next for the Barden family.

A 1993 profile of Ricky Jay, world-class sleight-of-hand conjurer who rarely performs (and never for children), historian of unusual entertainments and confidence scams, bibliomaniac.

She’s trying to keep comedy alive at a moment when Hollywood—and its audience—can’t seem to crack a smile.

“The palace doors flew open. It was him. It was Rick Owens, the American-born designer known to his fans as the Lord of Darkness.”

Othea Loggan came to Chicago and got a job bussing tables and washing dishes at Walker Bros. Original Pancake House in Wilmette in 1964. He still works there today.

From HBO to ‘Star Wars’ to Shakespeare, he has discovered how to excel beyond tidy genres.

When your job is to constantly share your life, even your worst moments are an opportunity to please your audience.

Junior’s personal life is in shambles, Robert Mueller looms large, and it’s never been trickier to be the president’s son.

A profile of director Guillermo del Toro.

Deep Throat, unmasked.

A visit to the set of Lost Highway, minus an actual interview with the director.

A review of several books on Rupert Murdoch first criticizes the authors for not grasping the many sides of their subject, then offers a thesis of its own. He’s “not so much a man, or a cultural force, as a portrait of the modern world.”

A profile of Ernest Hemingway.

On former Knicks savior Stephon Marbury and his post-NBA life playing in China.

A profile of the writer.

A profile of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

A profile of The Rock, the best friend you didn’t know you had.