A personal reconstruction.

In a speech that’s getting a bit of flak for recycling some of his past lines, the stage- and screenwriter says it’s okay to make mistakes along the way:

And make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You're a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You're barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they're a-coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

An immigrant on what happens when neighbors turn on each other:

"Every Bosnian I know had a friend, or even a family member, who flipped and betrayed the life they had shared until, in the early 1990s, the war started. My best high-school friend turned into a rabid Serbian nationalist and left his longtime girlfriend in Sarajevo so he could take part in its siege. My favorite literature professor became one of the main ideologues of Serbian fascism. Just last week, I talked to a Muslim man from Foča whose mother was repeatedly raped by his Serb friend, and whose brother was killed by their neighbor. Yugoslavia and Bosnia had provided a sense of societal stability for a couple of generations, which is why the betrayal was so shocking to so many of us."

Dinner with the novelist, the book critic and “Myshkin, a 14-year-old female dachshund who is deaf but decidedly not mute.”

I say, Where’s Breonna, why won’t anybody say where Breonna is? He says, Well, ma’am, she’s still in the apartment. And I know what that means.

The melancholy comedy of the silent screen star.

Second Life was supposed to be the future of the internet, but then Facebook came along. Yet many people still spend hours each day inhabiting this virtual realm. Their stories—and the world they’ve built—illuminate the promise and limitations of online life.

Remembering the book that changed the way journalists covered the NBA.

The last men who ride the rails, “where silence and lawlessness still reign.”

An interview with the late writer.

What the popular game says about our subconscious.

The search for answers after the worst American rail disaster in decades.

How the 130-year-old game company bounced back with the Switch.

An interview with the writer and Nobel laureate.

A life lived at 7’7”.

The comedian on his show business bucket list, Donald Sterling, and whether he ever feels guilty for being funny.

On the road with the makeup-clad band.

The relationship between Buffalo and its team.

Life as a human cannonball.

The investigation that brought down K2 Productions.

What it’s like to drive tourists around the Australian outback.

A jeweler from Queens tries to crack the code.

A cautionary inquiry into the unchecked hive mind.

The artists are leaving San Francisco.

Murky origins. Feuding chefs. How the lobster roll went national.