Wes Anderson, the Wilson brothers and Bottle Rocket.

“I mean, writers are horribly envious and so nobody likes stars, we always feel like it’s a zero-sum game and whatever stardom somebody else has is being taken directly from us, so we hate the stars. But we also need them. Because the possibility of some level of stardom is what will continue to attract new writers to the game. If you’re a linguistically talented 22-year-old, there’s a list of things you can be: you can work in Hollywood, you can be a blogger, etc. And if being a novelist equates to some quaint thing like being a Morris dancer, who’s going to choose this?”

On the life and death of Elliott Smith.

A visit to Star Axis, a desert art installation that connects you to the cosmos.

Last year, a group of young Romanians stole millions of euros worth of art from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. They had previously only robbed homes and thought the artwork would be easy to sell. It was not. So they secreted it back home, where, in an effort to save her son, the leader’s mother burned it.

The authors spend time in Concord, Mass., with people who impersonate Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

An analysis of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Cotton Tenants, the original manuscript.

Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and his four years of production on Gravity.

“I think I knew that at heart I was an aging spinster.”

An interview with the literary agent about the state of the book industry and how, at least for him, it continues to be quite lucrative.

“The first point he makes several times is that his new album will appeal to everyone; the second is that he is a changed man who’s grown up and calmed down. All I can say with certainty is that Brown is a stranger to the concepts of modesty and consistency.”

He outsold Elvis, signed one of the first pay-for-play contracts and befriended Martin Luther King Jr. A profile of Harry Belafonte.

Badfinger’s ill-fated attempt at a comeback, as orchestrated by a Milwaukee con man.

A literary memoir.

The world’s most famous child star grows up.

An open letter on Grand Theft Auto 5 and aging out of the Rockstar Games franchise.

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

A few days in the life of Miley Cyrus.

Myst, twenty years later.

How the icon’s personal struggles with identity fed his art.

How both the drugs and the music have evolved together.

Nine Inch Nails guitarist Aaron North’s descent into madness and obscurity.

How Norman Mailer and other writers wanted to go out.

On the biggest food fraud in U.S. history.

A profile of Elizabeth Gilbert, whose bestselling memoir may have sunk her literary career.