“If we’re sitting here bored, getting high and we got guns around, it ain’t nothing else to do.”

Meet Ben Discoe, a programmer who did it from October 2011 to November 2012.

She was an overnight YouTube success. Then she tried to make a TV show.

An interview with Jimmy Page on nostalgia, Robert Plant, and why he would only publish an autobiography after he dies.

Three siblings from Chicago ran away to become jihadis. Is it fair to try them as terrorists?

Foreign policy as architecture; how embassies went from lavish social hubs to reinforced strongholds.

“In 2000, Zimbabwe’s dictator began kicking white farmers off their land. One man decided to stay.”

Deaf, mute and undocumented, he was charged 12 years ago with a capital crime and has been in legal limbo ever since.

Her fiction has imagined societies riddled with misogyny, oppression, and environmental havoc. These visions now feel all too real.

What it feels like to get hit by a major league fastball.

How extreme weather, which displaced more than a million people last year, could reshape America.

Who is this person?

How Jerry Lee Lewis got away with murdering 25-year-old Shawn Michelle Stevens, his fifth wife.

How Craig Carton, a morning host on WFAN, ended up running a Ponzi scheme.

A very Florida investigation.

Antoine Yates spent three years living in New York City public housing with a 450-pound Siberian tiger named Ming.

A year after her death, a tribute to the Saturday Night Live star who didn’t want to be on TV.

An interview on craft:

Writing The Subs in three nights was really a fantastic athletic feat as well as mental, you shoulda seen me after I was done...I was pale as a sheet and had lost fifteen pounds and looked strange in the mirror.

“We take it that all young writers overestimate their work. It’s impossible not to—I mean if you recognized what shit you were writing, you wouldn’t write it. You have to believe in your stuff—every day has to be the new day on which the new poem may be it.”

The schism at the heart of cosmology.

An appreciation of the hometown team.

The meanings of coiffure, from follicle to shaft.

The city through the eyes of a four-year-old.

Unraveling the case of a Canadian man suffering from schizophrenia, put on trial for murder in New York, but found not criminally responsible in Nova Scotia.

You know this one: German guy heads into tribal jungle deep upriver, sends the company crazy reports full of radical ideas—and then goes totally rogue. Only this time it's not ivory he's after. It's a secret lost for centuries: the finest cacao on earth.