The author visits the 9/11 Memorial Museum, 13 years after his sister’s death.

In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town, capturing the world’s attention.

The primate who ruled the news vanished again. A quest to find him led deep into Florida’s monkey kingdom.

Didion’s genius is that she understands what it is to be a girl on the cusp of womanhood, in that fragile, fleeting, emotional time that she explored in a way no one else ever has. Didion is, depending on the reader’s point of view, either an extraordinarily introspective or an extraordinarily narcissistic writer. As such, she is very much like her readers themselves.

After Moneyball became a best-seller, Michael Lewis learned that many of the ideas it presented to the general public had actually been introduced decades earlier by a pair of Israeli psychologists.

Adapted from The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds.

On the chaotic letters of journalist and Dr. Strangelove screenwriter Terry Southern.

The search for the perfect hot dog—by way of haute cuisine.

An actor, fresh from prison, attempts to reconnect with his son in 1950s California.

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Shanghai, in 1989 and 2013. Excerpted from A History of Future Cities.

On secrets that surprise no one:

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything.

He made billions. He lost billions. He was fired as CEO of the company he created. And on March 2, just hours after he was accused of rigging oil deals, he died in a one-car crash.

Kids have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image.

When a Black lineman from Colorado State went knocking on doors in a white neighborhood, he found himself at the dangerous intersection of a national racial reckoning and a world of internet-conspiracy fanaticism.

The use and abuse of civil forfeiture.

Twelve years ago, a Saudi Arabian man, whom federal authorities had long suspected of having ties to terrorism, was sentenced to life in prison on multiple counts of unlawful sexual contact. To this day, al-Turki has maintained that he’s innocent and was instead the target of post-9/11 anti-Muslim sentiment.

How a 20-something made millions as an e-commerce hustler.

How the heir to the Hart wrestling dynasty burned every bridge from Canada to Mexico.

A conversation with the anonymous novelist.

A world-renowned physicist’s miscalculation.

Only after buying a new home did the Milliken family learn something terrible had happened in it.

The men who say they’ll try to save the once-bustling gambling resort town.

A 30-year-old funeral director in LA wants to help the living get closer to death.

Edward Luttwak is a military strategist, a classical scholar, a cattle rancher, and an adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and the Dalai Lama.