For 18 months, Coatesville, Penn., was besieged with an improbable number of arsons. But who started the fires—and why?

The arson case that led Texas to execute an almost certainly innocent man.

Living through a Colorado fire that burned down 169 homes.

Ten churches are torched in East Texas. The culprits? Two Baptist teens having a crisis of faith.

Thomas Sweatt torched D.C. for decades and was finally jailed for killing one person. During a year-long correspondence from prison with a reporter, he confessed there were more.

It started with a candle in an abandoned warehouse. It ended with temperatures above 3,000 degrees and the men of the Worcester Fire Department in a fight for their lives.

The Granite Mountain Hotshots, an outfit of professional wildland firefighters, had 20 members. On June 30, 19 of them lost their lives.

A rookie firefighter confronts his first test.

Why the richest comedian in history keeps working.

A look at the life and career of Richard Pryor as he reached the end.

Carlin on his start, his work, and his addictions.

The rise and fall, and rise and fall, of a legend.

Searching for Dave Chappelle ten years after he left his show.

A young Allen writes jokes for supper club comedians, decides he will never succeed as a performer, does, idolizes and is snubbed by Mort Sahl, and develops the comic persona which will make him a star.

On Sarah Silverman’s stand-up style.

A profile of Larry David, with a focus on his years as a struggling stand-up.

A profile of the reclusive Garry Shandling.

She’s TV’s loudmouth Domestic Goddess, desecrater of our national anthem and most of our notions of good taste. And she has a secret. Meet Baby, Cindy, Susan, Nobody, Joey, Heather and the rest: An adventure in Multiple Personality Disorder.

Remembering the unsparing Patrice O’Neal.

Outtakes from a Rolling Stone profile.

On the desolate career of Todd Marinovich, who was engineered from birth to be an NFL quarterback and ended up a junkie.

A detailed account of Plimpton’s 5-play tenure as quarterback of the Detroit Lions.

Jared Lorenzen was a star quarterback in college. He won a Super Bowl. And just like the author, he has spent his entire life fighting, and losing, a battle with his weight.

The stories of the 109 black men who have played quarterback in the NFL, from Fritz Pollard to Russell Wilson.

A profile of Eli Manning—brother of Peyton, son of Archie, future Super Bowl MVP—published shortly after his first NFL start.

Catching up with Jake Plummer, who turned down a $5 million contract and left the NFL while still in his prime to concentrate on playing handball.

A profile of Tim Tebow as he dealt with NFL skeptics on the eve of his final college season.

Over a scotch a few months after his underdog Jets won Super Bowl III, a 26-year-old Joe Namath told Jimmy Breslin what he’d done the night before the game: “I went out and got a bottle and grabbed this girl.”

Love, Margaret Thatcher and a broken penis.

The case of the disappearing penis.

How Steve Warshak made millions selling “natural male enhancement” and lost it all.

Meet the medical men who made John Bobbitt whole.

In 1967, Dr. John Money transformed a baby boy into a baby girl. For decades, he touted the case as a success. It wasn’t.

A look at the foreskin restoration movement.

The story of soldiers who served their country and paid a horrible price.