The NBA’s most “irrationally confident” player tells his story.

A history of a small Texas town deep in the Chihuahuan desert:

The isolation is such that if you laid out the islands of the Hawaiian archipelago, and the deep ocean channels that separate them, on the road between Marfa and the East Texas of strip shopping and George Bush Jr., you’d still have 100 miles of blank highway stretching away in front of you.

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How do you move on from being the best?

On theme parks in America.

An interview with futurist Ray Kurzweil on the “Singularity” and the overlap between technology and spiritualism.

The brains behind the uncannily accurate Des Moines Register poll.

Can Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski make the casual audience care about figure skating?

On the parasitic relationship between oil and the stock market.

If the memory of the Twin Towers now belongs to the world, the story of how they have been replaced is entirely of New York: a tale of power, capital, shifting allegiances, and hallowed ground.

After his untimely death at age 50, prior to the publication of any of his novels, Larsson is posthumously at the center of a publishing empire built on the international success of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

“He is, as of this writing, the most mocked man in the world.”

A pre-eminent expert on large carnivores runs afoul of the enemies of the wolf.

The island of Borneo is the only home of the proboscis monkey, an endangered primate that is surprisingly resilient.

On the complete corruption of Paul Bergin, a federal attorney turned high-priced defense lawyer now awaiting trial on a host of charges.

If Paul is guilty of half the things they say, he’d be the craziest, most evil lawyer in the history of the State of New Jersey. That is saying something.

Neale McShane’s jurisdiction in the Australian Outback is roughly the size of the United Kingdom. He patrols it alone.

Art often draws inspiration from life—but what happens when it’s your life?

Oral histories from a Dorset village on lockdown.

An interview with the author.

"We live in a frightened time and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions. That is one of the great damaging aspects of what has happened in the last 20 years. Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.' I am a writer. I write books."

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

Tropicália was a movement that lasted just short of a year, spanning from Hélio Oiticica’s 1967 art installation of the same name, wherein viewers walked along a tropical sand path only to come face-to-face with a television set, to the debut of a TV show, wherein its constituents buried the movement on-air. But Tropicália’s influence was vast.

The case against a notorious cat burglar, who is accused of stealing more than $12 million worth of the South’s finest sterling silver.

A dispatch from Anthony Scaramucci’s SALT Conference.

Chantix is a pill that decreases the pleasurable effects of cigarettes. It also causes hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and waking nightmares:

A week into my Chantix usage, I started to feel as if the city landscape had imperceptibly shifted around me. Mundane details began to strike me as having deep, hidden significance. The neon arch above McDonald’s: The lights blinked on and off in some sort of pattern, and I needed to crack the code.

How Facebook ‘likes’ landed Jelani Henry in Rikers.