On Friday Night Lights as book, film, and TV show.

Living with hypersomnia, a disorder marked by sleeping dozens of hours straight and still never feeling truly awake.

A profile of Red Bull’s Dietrich Mateschitz, who wants to make his drink a lifestyle. Mateschitz’s co-founder, Chaleo Yoovidhya, died March 17.

When members of China’s massive bulletin-board forums perceive wrongdoing, they form a “human flesh search engine” and seek out real world vigilante justice.

A profile of Vova Galchenko, teenage juggling virtuoso and early viral star.

On two gay men in Pennsylvania who tried, and failed, to build a commune of their own.

On Keith Richards’ autobiography.

There’s some very sensible advice on how to take drugs, too.

On a comic offering portrayals of secular Muslims that American audiences rarely see.

A profile of Ernest Hemingway.

A profile of UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma, who has not found peace despite unprecedented success.

A free-ranging conversation between music writers Simon Reynolds and Greil Marcus.

Victims of Mexico’s drug violence often end up in unmarked graves. This man set out to find them.

An interview with Samin Nosrat, author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, on fame, veganism, depression, and writing a new cookbook.

Understanding Joe Biden by way of his favorite historian.

“A quarantine facial-hair experiment led me to a deep consideration of my Blackness.”

On the writer’s new book and tell-all style.

After his father died in an Airbnb rental, the writer investigates what the company can do to improve safety.

What happened when the U.S. Military decided to take its lead from America’s biggest brands.

A ride-along with the guys tasked with demolishing the city’s 10,000 “abandoned, godforsaken homes.”

What really happened between the plaintiffs in Lawrence vs. Texas, the case that ended anti-sodomy laws?

The author’s long-running relationship with the grotesque.

“But the journalism itself is not free. It can’t be free. And if it is free, it’s not going to be very good.”

Her suicide made headlines around the world after classmates were indicted on felony charges related to bullying. The real story isn’t that simple.

Examining the state’s campaign to grant clemency and restore civil rights.