When Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison were roommates.

He and I had our differences. I am not inclined to be sentimental about those Arcadian or Utopian days. He didn't approve of my way of running the place. I had complained also that his dog relieved himself in my herb garden. I asked, "Can't you arrange to have him do his shitting elsewhere?"

The war between Major League Baseball and Alex Rodriguez, “fought with six-figure payoffs in the tanning salons and strip malls of South Florida.”

The story of “the biggest retail hack in U.S. history.”

The business of sound.

An annual re-enactment drags America’s history of racist violence into the light.

ProDoula wants to revolutionize the touchy-feely doula profession — and make millions of dollars along the way.

How mergers between Catholic institutions and secular hospitals are changing the nature of health care.

A son’s memory of the father he lost at 13, excerpted from The Magical Stranger.

A New York gossip reporter makes her way in the wilds of European bureaucracy.

The final days of the last Navy SEAL to die in Afghanistan.

The story of the 2010 NCAA championship game between Duke and Butler, and what would have been greatest shot in college basketball history.

The story of a college town and the most devastating tornado in Alabama history.

The selfie may have ended any hope of resurrecting New York’s nightlife.

A drag pageant pioneer dropped out of the public eye after the 1960s. What happened to her?

The sugar beet harvest in North Dakota draws a modern version of the American hobo.

On the recovery of snowboarder Kevin Pearce, who suffered a massive brain injury five days before the 2010 Olympics.

On Astana, the grandiose new capital that Kazakhstan built on the site of a remote Tsarist fort, and its striving young inhabitants.

The Beastie Boys on tour in Los Angeles shortly after the release of their debut album, Licensed to Ill.

How a convicted sexual predator emptied the bank accounts and ruined the lives of several women from behind bars.

The author recounts playing herself – best-selling author Sloane Crosley – on an episode of “Gossip Girl.”

Meet Dr. Schnoz, the nose-sculpting YouTube king of Miami.

In the early ’80s, underground chemists cooked up synthetic versions of heroin that took over the market in California—and left young users with symptoms typically associated with Parkinson’s.

A profile of Anas Aremeyaw, an investigative journalist in Ghana who’s willing to do anything–and pose as anyone–to get the story.

The story of Lisa S. Davis and Lisa S. Davis.

A thirty-year-old Tom Petty on the brink of Damn the Torpedoes.