The man who killed John Wilkes Booth was a eunuch. By choice.

A critique of Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for ‘Superman’.

Mo Pinel spent a career reshaping the ball’s inner core to harness the power of physics. He revolutionized the sport—and spared no critics along the way.

Catch shares are touted by the government and environmental groups as the solution to overfishing. But for a new generation under the system, the economics consist mainly of “absentee landlords, brokers and bankers, [and] fish quota that costs more than your house.”

HEMINGWAY: You go to the races? PLIMPTON: Yes, occasionally. HEMINGWAY: Then you read the Racing Form . . . . There you have the true art of fiction.

It was the middle of the day in the steamy Philippine jungle and the sun was merciless. Director Francis Ford Coppola, dressed in rumpled white Mao pajamas, was slowly making his way upriver in a motor launch.

“They think of us as pests, so they are trying to drive us out of our homes, for what is the Republican drive for our self-deportation if not a plan of fumigation?”

Did the NBA executive use social media to secretly disparage his players and defend his decisions?

“They have effectively claimed the progressive causes of the left – from gay rights to women’s equality and protecting Jews from antisemitism – as their own, by depicting Muslim immigrants as the primary threat to all three groups. As fear of Islam has spread, with their encouragement, they have presented themselves as the only true defenders of western identity and western liberties – the last bulwark protecting a besieged Judeo-Christian civilisation from the barbarians at the gates.”

Requiem for a viral hit.

Life on an isolated island utopia.

The elusive director’s early years.

A Montana sheriff and a manhunt in the mountains.

The search for a missing soldier.

Invented in 1899, it hasn’t been improved upon since.

Hanging out with the Atomic Bombshells in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

When a random person becomes a massive meme.

How we talk about—and live with—schizophrenia.

How solitary confinement can lead to suicide.

On corresponding with the Oklahoma City bomber.

Travels through post-election America.

How populism took a continent.

On the vexed territory between aquí and allá.

Inside the New York Public Library’s archives.