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

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.

“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?”

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

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

Requiem for a viral hit.

Life on an isolated island utopia.

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.

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.

How the Christian film industry works.