Wes Anderson, the Wilson brothers and Bottle Rocket.

The wild competition to be “worshipped” by Alaska’s most eligible bachelors.

A surprising trip into the propaganda machine.

On (not) getting by in the gig economy.

On David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel, The Pale King, and his legacy.

She is an unknown struggling writer. Her boyfriend is Jonathan Franzen.

A reporter on his first time covering a disaster.

On the battles, both between humans and animals, in Africa’s overpopulated Albertine Rift.

On singer-songwriters Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman and Van Dyke Parks.

I get the sense that the labels' attitude toward these guys wasn't altogether different from a parent's attitude toward gifted children: Get them through the system, but make sure to give them a clean little corner to doodle in and pat them on the head when they show you what they've done, whether you understand it or not.

Shiva Ayyadurai told the world he invented email. Not everyone agreed.

“My mother became my daughter when I was nine years old.”

A profile from Cooper’s early days an an anchor.

Chasing stardom in YouTube’s crowded universe.

Almost ten years after his kidnapping, a man writes to the people who threatened his life.

Hemingway was in love with two women at once. He found the experience wrenching.

How English became the weirdest major language in modern use.

How bad lawyering and an unforgiving law cost condemned men their last appeal.

The old axiom that more is better is no longer true.

Talking with the most read—and most controversial—sex columnnist today.

A week at Coachella with the rapper and some mushrooms.

An unidentified body found near the beach in Australia in 1948. An unclaimed suitcase. A coded note.

The Appleseed Project is ostensibly a traveling marksmanship school - but what else is it teaching?

How the U.S. Army went evangelical and turned a war into a crusade.