On the power of youth literature.

A wedding photographer catches up with his past clients.

A “crude table-tennis arcade game” called Pong and the birth of the video game industry.

Los Angeles’ Wolvesmouth and the unlicensed dining industry.

The many reasons Lost shouldn’t have happened.

He came home from Vietnam, wrote the novel that became Full Metal Jacket, was nominated for an Oscar and riding high. Then he got thrown in jail for stockpiling stolen library books, started drinking, cut off his friends and fled to a remote Greek island. He never made it back.

A profile of the late actor.

The market for Hirst’s work is in a tailspin. Why?

An oral history of the Dr. Dre album.

A profile of photographer Richard Avedon from early in his career.

The Grateful Dead’s afterlife.

An interview with the Japanese artist, who has resided in a mental institution since committing herself in 1975.

A field report from Electric Daisy Carnival, a three-night bacchanal in the Las Vegas desert attended by “100,000 wasted hedonists scantily dressed in furry underwear.”

In the Swiss town of Meiringen, where an obsessed group of ‘pilgrims’ painstakingly recreate the death of Sherlock Holmes.

How a loathsome band makes gobs of money.

The backstory of “The Duke in His Domain,” Truman Capote’s 1957 New Yorker profile of Marlon Brando.

Blockbusters in the age of “corporate irony.”

On the novelist’s experience in movie-making.

Life at Marvel Comics in the mid-1960s.

An excerpt from Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.

Forty years after its release, the story of “Free to Be… You and Me.”

The Drugstore Cowboy star candidly discusses the characters who defined her career.

I can’t ask anything. Once in a while if I’m forced into it I will conduct an interview, but it’s usually pro forma, just to establish my credentials as somebody who’s allowed to hang around for a while. It doesn’t matter to me what people say to me in the interview because I don’t trust it.

The tragi-comic career of a nobody comedian from the 1940s who ditched his wife, child, and eventually his own name.

Grizzly Bear and the surprisingly crappy economics of indie rock stardom.

A profile of the legendary producer at the beginning of his career.