Michelito Lagrevere is a 12-year-old Mexican matador sensation.

How a jazz pianist disappeared into his music.

A week with DJ Avicii.

Alexander Weygers and his Discopter.

“Any North Korean knows that escaping their nation is nearly impossible.”

What happens when robots act just like humans?

There has never been a better time to commit financial crimes.

A nephew investigates his uncle’s suicide

Ten years ago, Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s disappeared.

Donors all over America opened their wallets for his United States Navy Veterans Association. Politicians all over Washington posed for grip-and-grins with him. But not only was he not a legitimate fundraiser for military families—he wasn’t even Bobby Charles Thompson.

Stare at the game long enough and the distance between everything—players, league, game, court, self, other—begins to collapse. Everything becomes a metaphor for everything else, the league and your life each generating infinite layers of meaning for the other.

“The supernatural stuff doesn’t get to me anymore. But here’s the movie that scared me the most in the last 12 or 13 years: The movie opens with a woman in late middle-age, sitting at a table and writing a story. And the story goes something like, then the branches creaked in the - and she stops, and she says to her husband: What are those things? I can’t think of them. They’re in the backyard, and they’re very tall, and birds land on the branches. And he says, why, Iris, those are trees. And she says, yes, how silly of me. And she writes the word, and the movie starts. That’s Iris Murdoch, and she’s suffering the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.”

A post-acquisition profile of Tumblr’s David Karp.

Ardelia Ali was raped in 1995. Twenty years later, her attacker was convicted.

It was a genius piece of technology. But that didn’t mean it was a business.

Once their careers end, pro wrestlers often fall into emotional and physical disrepair. One of their own, Diamond Dallas Page, has a fix.

“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!”

From Tetris to Angry Birds, an examination of “stupid games.”

How an unassuming bureaucrat outsmarted Jamie Oliver and pulled off a cafeteria miracle in one of America’s unhealthiest cities.

A profile of a young activist in Chicago who almost committed suicide on Facebook Live.

A gym entrepreneur’s side business in marijuana spins out of control.

How the Google co-founder, forced out of a leadership role in 2001, came back to run the company 10 years later.

After Devaughn Darling died during a workout with the Florida State football team, his family was awarded a payout of $2 million. That was 13 years ago. Only $200,000 has come.

A profile of Chris Rock as he makes one last attempt to jump from standup to leading man.