An interview with Miley Cyrus.

How P. Rajagopal, the founder of one of the world’s largest vegetarian restaurant chains, got away with murder.

A history of the celebrity profile.

The story of Soylent, a Silicon Valley concoction designed to replace your meals.

A profile of rapper Bun B, “the unofficial mayor of Houston.”

The life and mysterious death of dissident Bulgarian writer and radio journalist Georgi Markov.

“A story is a kind of biopsy of human life.”

A tour with the Stones, an appearance on The Munsters, and a song about “how Boston is a shit hole.”

A cross-country drive with Michael O'Donoghue, the first head writer of Saturday Night Live.

Previously: The Longform Guide to SNL.

A young writer grows up with Alice Munro.

A profile of DJ Larry Levan, whose sets at New York’s Paradise Garage in the 80s had an almost religious appeal.

Is a well-received work of William Faulkner scholarship a hoax?

Did Thomas Pynchon write a series of letters to Northern California newspapers under the pseudonym “Wanda Tinasky”?

An interview with Barry Diller about Aereo and the past, present and future of TV.

Previously: Vanessa Grigoriadis on the Longform Podcast.

A conversation with the author of Calvin and Hobbes.

“In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That’s the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.”

Deep inside the world of Cartoon Network’s most popular show.

On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and vanished without a trace.

A profile of photographer Ryan McGinley.

“In the recent history of American music, there’s no figure parallel to Lehrer in his effortless ascent to fame, his trajectory into the heart of the culture — and then his quiet, amiable, inexplicable departure.”

Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams, on crying in movie theaters, “attention whores” and David Foster Wallace.

The last days of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

The downside of opening up.

Stolen time with the writer as he neared the end.

On Michael Jackson’s talent.