An interview with the comedian.

I sometimes miss believing, and look toward the days when I was satisfied by testimony—by the feeling that there were encounters everywhere, all seeming to attest to some great mystery.

An organ transplant recipient cycles across the country to meet the people who gave him his heart.

"I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump. I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it’s like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z."

An advertising copywriter adjusts to daily life in Paris, and works in a dysfunctional office.

Office culture in Paris held that it was each person's responsibility, upon arrival, to visit other people's desks and wish them good morning, and often kiss each person once on each cheek, depending on the parties' personal relationship, genders, and respective positions in the corporate hierarchy. Then you moved on to the next desk. Not everyone did it, but those who did not were noticed and remarked upon.

Dee Dee Blancharde was a model parent: a tireless single mom taking care of her gravely ill child. But after Dee Dee was killed, it turned out her daughter Gypsy had never been sick at all.

Aum Shinrikyo was founded in 1984 as a yoga and meditation class, initially known as Oumu Shinsen no Kai (オウム神仙の会 "Aum Mountain Hermits’ Society"), by pharmacist Chizuo Matsumoto.

Later, Matsumoto changed his name to Shoko Asahara and masterminded the most deadly terrorist attack in Japanese history. Asahara was executed by hanging on July 6, 2018, at the Tokyo Detention House, 23 years after the sarin gas attack, along with six other cult members.

A father who brought his daughter to a ballgame and the fallout from a foul ball.

Life as an elite Scrabble player at the “first-ever four-day, 54-player, 24-match $100,000 Scrabble Superstars Showdown.”

How one woman is monitoring the jihadi network from a home office in Montana.

“The first time I was ever published in a book was 1997. It was because I found Roger Ebert’s email and asked him a question.”

A drunken evening with the Primer and Upstream Color director.

The abusive relationship between a Bell Gardens mayor and his wife ends with her firing a gun.

A trailer and the people who lived with Dylann Roof in it before he killed nine people in a Charleston church.

A conversation about leadership, Grantland, regret, and the President’s favorite conspiracy theories.

A young journalist spent her days covering sexual assault and domestic violence. Then she became the story.

The author on Lolita, his work habits, and what he expected from his literary afterlife.

A decade later, on the then twenty-three-year-old Van Morrison’s 1968 album Astral Weeks.

On the restauranteur behind New York’s Gramercy Tavern and Shake Shack.

The author tracks down a former Peace Corps volunteer who murdered a fellow worker in 1976.

Chérif and Saïd Kouachi’s path to the Paris attack at Charlie Hebdo.

Cheryl Stearns wanted to become the first woman to skydive 20,000 times. She came up 14 jumps short.

It’s a mess inside the network – and Brian Williams may still come out on top.

An athlete without arms or legs tries to get a spot on a the national wheelchair rugby team.