Life after losing your memory at 22.

At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded 25 others. He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since.

The adventures of a pro bono gigolo.

The “blood sport” of classical music reviews.

At the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha.

The complexities of offering aid to a Syrian refugee camp.

Racial discrimination and the collection of small consumer debts.

A profile of Hollywood agent Irving “Swifty” Lazar.

A profile of Gordon Ramsay.

On the suicide of a promising professional golfer.

The transfiguration of Jared Loughner.

The life and death of Srinivas Kuchibhotla.

A profile of the Raging Bull boxer.

The education of Flynn McGarry.

“It was a clusterfuck of clusterfucks.”

A profile of the Fox News commentator.

On Rudolph Giuliani and the enduring power of shamelessness.

Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media.

Thoughts on an emerging brand of feminism and the ridiculousness of claiming that Tina Fey is unattractive.

“And yet we live still in Cheney’s world. All around us are the consequences of those decisions.”

How LA-style gang life migrated to the slums of San Salvador.

On Los Angeles’s 1985 declaration of “sanctuary status.”

The tragic romance of Jim Irsay, the shrewd owner of the Indianapolis Colts, and Kimberly Wundrum, a mother who shared his longtime addiction to painkillers, that ended with her overdosing in the secret condo he bought her.

Eleven books into his planned thirteen book The Wheel of Time cycle, the most popular fantasy series since Lord of the Rings, Robert Jordan saw death on his own horizon and planned accordingly. A 31-year-old former Mormon missionary inherited his universe.

Three interviews with John Gardner, author of Grendel and The Art of Fiction, conducted over the last decade of his life.