As the hip-hop group Odd Future rose to fame, their sixteen-year-old breakout star Earl Sweatshirt mysteriously disappeared.

(After a stretch at a school in Samoa, he seems to have reappeared yesterday.)

Inside the ultra-Orthodox Jewish rally at Citi Field to discuss the dangers of the internet:

A man in a black fur hat asked him what, exactly, was an app, and he explained it to him. The man grimaced and walked away.

“I turned to see Eva padding around the room, naked, dipping a small plastic wand into the bottle of bubble soap she’d bought at the market… Sometime in the far future, when I was lying on my deathbed, I said, this was the moment I wanted to remember.”

On the relationship between travel and photography.

Peggy Jo Tallas spent most of her adult life doing two things: taking care of her ailing mother and robbing bank after bank dressed as a pudgy, bearded cowboy.

According to the movie version, they died side by side, guns blazing, in the crosshairs of half a Bolivian regiment. It’s a great Hollywood ending that happens to be true, mostly: they left America… then died in Bolivia. What Hollywood didn’t know is that Butch and Sundance escaped.

In November 1985, a woman who appeared to be a homeless drifter staked out the offices of 80-year-old banker Nicholas Deak, waited until he returned from lunch, then executed Deak and his secretary. As police wrestled her to the floor, she said “Don’t hurt me. He told me I could carry the gun.”

Did Thomas Pynchon write a series of letters to Northern California newspapers under the pseudonym “Wanda Tinasky”?

Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark’s schools. They got an education.

What led to the death of a 5-year-old boy, “the Everychild in the state system.”

The dispute over what may be the biggest sunken treasure ever found – and who gets to keep it.

A conversation with one of Russia’s “little green men”: a 24-year-old recruited to fight in Eastern Ukraine.

A father who brought his daughter to a ballgame and the fallout from a foul ball.

Monaco’s richest woman was shot in ambush outside a hospital. Her heirs stand to inherit over a billion dollars each.

When jobs vanish, Southern men find new ways to contribute.

In the 1970s, Chile was on the verge of developing sophisticated technology to monitor its economy. Then America intervened.

Why parties, love, kids, conversation and more are so miserable (at least to Phillip Lopate).

Thousands of new warehouse jobs were supposed to help lift a struggling British economy. Instead, employees started equating the work with “being in a slave camp.”

Investigating a former NFL star’s new business: renting professional athletes to their biggest fans.

Bob Voulgaris and his math prodigy sidekick attempt to create the perfect betting algorithm.

A cultural history of Bitcoin and what happened when the nascent virtual currency began to be covered by the mainstream media.

Groupon disasters, the behaviors of the consumer swarm, and how the “1% and the 90% [are] collaborating to prey on the 9% in the middle.”

A trip to an uncompromising cattle ranch.

On the lesbian separatists of the 1970s, who “created a shadow society devoted to living in an alternate, penisless reality.”

A dispatch from Eloise Woods, a natural burial ground where bodies are consigned directly to the earth.

When it comes to sweatshops and child labor, your $7 H&M gym shorts aren’t really the problem (or the solution).