Meet Mark Millar, the brains behind our era’s most violent, ingenious comics.

An interview on craft.

Script doctor Damon Lindelof explains the new rules of blockbuster screenwriting.

Inside a family of novelists.

The cult author, 57 years into his writing career.

The “blood sport” of classical music reviews.

A 22,000-word breakdown of Kubrick’s “odyssey portraying the span of millennia.”

Remembering the indie rock club that The New York Times once said was “so New York that it’s in New Jersey.”

On literary manifestos, long-distance reading, and the egg of death.

A profile of the writer behind “Deep Thoughts” on Saturday Night Live.

Making the case that all Pixar movies exist on a cohesive timeline in the same universe dominated by a central theme: the battle between animals, humans and machines.

The “naked technological realities” of America’s heartland and how they power a “cosy coastal world of pretend farmers’ markets and happy cows.”

On the origins of The Village People.

How Gaby Hoffman, who had roles in Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck and Sleepless in Seattle, survived child stardom.

On set in Mexico with the Duke.

A Southland Tales fanboy goes down the rabbit hole with the movie’s director.

How Robert Gottlieb quelled a rebellion and saved The New Yorker.

Note: Elon Green is a contributing editor to Longform.

After being fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden, Jason Everman joined the Special Forces.

On the writers, poets and beats in a reclusive California town, where residents repeatedly tear down highway signs indicating its location.

The weird history and uncertain future of New York City’s shoreline.

How to photograph Los Angeles from a helicopter.

On the sins of the lazy translator.

Listening to music in prison.

An interview with Rick Rubin.

On the county fair and casino circuit with Huey Lewis, who at 61 is “part of a select fraternity of musicians who can draw a couple thousand people in dozens (if not hundreds) of middle-American towns … scattered throughout the country.”