A legal executioner, he’s the toughest, meanest, vilest, and one of the most brilliant lawyers in America

The search for Malaysia Air 370

Richard Ben Cramer’s classic account of what it takes to be President

Norman Maclean taught Shakespeare until he was seventy, then wrote a timeless story worthy of the bard himself

An epicurean adventure that began with a muffin satori in Minneapolis

12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley discusses Garry Wills’s 1968 profile, “Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case!”

A chronicle of risk and romance on the sidelines of the NBA

A meeting of two American masters: Robert Noyce and Tom Wolfe.

Trust me, he said, and the last great brawling sports team in America did. Twenty years after Thurman Munson’s death, Reggie, Catfish, Goose, Gator, the Boss—and a nation of former boys—still aren’t over it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Crack-Up," a series of essays from 1936 about his alcoholism and mental breakdown, set off a genre of confessional writing that persists and thrives today.