A 58-year-old manuscript will become Harper Lee’s second novel, but questions about Lee’s care continue to swirl in Alabama.

One day you’re teaching yourself to play the piano in hotel lobbies, the next you’re contributing a song to a David Lynch soundtrack.

Key and Peele try to make comedic sense of America’s confusions about race. Their secret? “Really, there’s no actual strategy.”

The article that kept the New Yorker alive was written by a debutante. Who happened to be married to Irving Berlin.

The many lives of Josh Tillman, who on the way to releasing one of the year’s best albums was “a defiant child of God, a broke dishwasher, a successful drummer, a Dionysian shaman, a failed poet, a drug-hoovering spiritualist, and a gleeful prankster.”

She was not just a poet, she was an “event” in American literature all by herself.

In spite of the boiling-hot anticipation of its release, no one had much fun making this movie.

A draft dodger invents a pop music career for himself – without recording any songs.

The singer-songwriter has a calico cat named Nietzsche.

The rise and fall of former McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson.

The dramatic liberties a much-heralded film takes with historical fact show how hard it is to get complexity onto the big screen.

The surreal pageantry of the North Korean Film Festival makes Hollywood look demure.

How the author’s father wrote over 400 pieces of “pirate porn, ghost porn, science-fiction porn, vampire porn, historical porn, time-travel porn, secret-agent porn, thriller porn, zombie porn and Atlantis porn.”

A journalist and documentarian charts over a decade of her relationship with Philip Roth.

Seth Rogen, Amy Pascal, and the inside story of Sony’s hacking saga.

How Harper Lee was duped into signing away the rights to To Kill a Mockingbird, which still sells 750,000 copies per year, and how she’s fighting to get them back.

The tragic final days (and very weird afterlife) of a radio legend.

In the wake of Rumours, the band endures a series of break-ups.

On the set of ‘Show Me a Hero,’ his new HBO miniseries, Simon is as impassioned, cantankerous, and uncompromising as ever.

Long a cult favorite in comedy, Bob Odenkirk has finally found wider recognition—and respect—through a shady character named Saul.

Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas, want to tell your children what to learn in school.

How a blind, destitute man became a world-class composer while living on the streets of New York.

Alex Malarkey co-wrote a bestselling book about a near-death experience. Last week he admitted he made it up. Why wasn’t anyone listening to a quadriplegic boy and a mother who simply wanted to tell the truth?

A conversation with Björk about Vulnicura, her new—and confessional—album about her recent break-up with Matthew Barney.

How the singer became the target of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics’ early, racially-motivated war on drugs. </br></br>

Excerpted from Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.