Happy 59th! Or is it 58th? Cracking the mystery of Don Mattingly’s birthday.

An interview with the elusive Frank Ocean.

Searching for the person responsible for an iconic piece of 90s design.

Despite decades of research, myth and fear still surround the animals.

The search for an anonymous amateur philosopher.

A jeweler from Queens tries to crack the code.

What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?

The hedge funders who tried to give away a fortune anonymously.

On the suicide of a promising professional golfer.

A profile of the Fox News commentator.

An oral history of Lilith Fair.

On Ron Latimer, the strange, elusive publisher of great poets, including Wallace Stevens.

How a drug store conquered New York.

The search for a missing soldier.

He spent years scrimping and saving. But without a will, where’s his money going?

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

After thousands of birds vanished overnight from a Florida refuge, conspiracy theories bloomed.

The best-selling young novelist lay dead in a trash-strewn cottage on Ireland’s rugged coast for over a week before she was discovered.

The mysterious business interests trying to patent strains and turn their company into the Monsanto of legal marijuana.

Who is this person?

Today, Robert Dowlut is the National Rifle Association’s top lawyer. Fifty years ago, he was convicted of murdering a woman with a handgun.

On a Victorian-era murder case, and the novel it inspired.

The wealthy widow of an East Bay newspaper baron, her cowboy fantasy man, and the drowning nobody could solve.

Academics are convinced it’s an intelligent satire.

Dozens of young adults in rural Wales are hanging themselves, feeding an epidemic of copycat suicides that experts are have been unable to contain.