A profile of Eve Babitz – muse, writer, LA party girl.

A profile of Harold Ramis, director of Groundhog Day, who died today.

The complicated process of ghostwriting Julian Assange’s autobiography.

Investigating ska’s moment of conception.

Life after The Real World.

The rise and fall of a teen fashion empire.

In the Winter of 1964, the Fab Four rocket to superstardom in just six weeks.

Photographer Trevor Paglen makes art out of government secrets.

Hear Jonah Weiner discuss this article on the Longform Podcast.

A barely drinking-age Green Day profiled shortly after the release of Dookie.

“When society becomes unhinged, the arts get really good.”

In between projects, the director searches for “that next soul-nourishing gig.”

On fame, making money and agnosticism.

An illustrated codex, hand-composed in an unknown writing system.

On the “queer roots” of Disco, House, and beyond.

A murder involving the late actor leaves unanswered questions.

“There was an unwritten rule in Mia Farrow’s house that Woody Allen was never supposed to be left alone with their seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan.”

On the Netflix hit drama and its show runner, Beau Willimon.

“I think you are asking me, in the most tactful way possible, about my own ­aggression and malice. What can I do but plead guilty? I don’t know ­whether journalists are more aggressive and malicious than people in other professions. We are certainly not a ‘helping profession.’ If we help anyone, it is ourselves, to what our subjects don’t realize they are letting us take. I am hardly the first writer to have noticed the not-niceness of journalists. Tocqueville wrote about the despicableness of American journalists in Democracy in America. In Henry James’s satiric novel The Reverberator, a wonderful rascally journalist named George M. Flack appears. I am only one of many contributors to this critique. I am also not the only journalist contributor. Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion, for instance, have written on the subject. Of course, being aware of your rascality doesn’t excuse it.”

Tom Waits interviewed at 38.

The improbable life and career of the sculptor-turned-musician.

An oral history of Swingers.

A profile of the Hot 97 DJ a few months after “he told the truth about who he is, even if it’s not entirely clear—even to Mister Cee himself, even now, to this day—what exactly that truth is.”

Moe Tucker narrates her time drumming in the Velvet Underground.

How “Do What You Love” devalues actual work.

Twenty years after its premiere, the filmmakers and subjects look back at “the great American documentary.”