The Barnacle Queens of the Spanish Seaside This story has been adapted from Grape Olive Pig: Deep Travels Through Spain’s Food Culture (HarperWave), out November 15th. X osé Lorenzo is in the middle of explaining how he got the seven stitches on his scalp and the eight on his leg when a call rings…

Garry Kasparov, who is one of the top chess players ever, said that his 1999 match against Veselin Topalov was the greatest game of chess he ever played. In this video, MatoJelic goes through the game, move by move. Even if you only have a passing interest in chess, I’d recommend watching…it gets…

As if the sudden death of Gawker Media, felled by a Hulk Hogan invasion-of-privacy suit, wasn’t shocking enough when it happened earlier this year, word quickly...

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In Elizabethan amphitheatres, like the 1599 Globe Theatre, performances took place in ‘shared light’. Under such conditions, actors and audiences would be able...

Jennifer Frey drank herself to death. Frey’s obituary in the Washington Post , her last full-time employer,

Flor Arely Sánchez had been in bed with a fever and pains throughout her body for three days when a July thunderstorm broke over the mountainside. She got

When I was in Iqaluit last spring, I went back to the apartment where it happened—the suicide, the assault. It took about a week to

T he connection between writing and dancing has been much on my mind recently: it’s a channel I want to keep open. It feels a little neglected – compared to, say, the relationship between music and prose – maybe because there is something counter-intuitive about it. But for me the two forms are…

Kesha. Jack Davison for The New York Times. Styling by Shelby Scudder. Hair and makeup by Vittorio Masecchia. Manicure by Miho Okawara. K esha was tired; Kesha was in her Saturn return. A Saturn return, she explained to me, happens to people between the ages of 27 and 31. “It’s when [expletive] gets…

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Close Advertisement “My first son was my 1993 World Trade Center bombing baby,” says Gina Bennett, a veteran CIA analyst who has spent her career tracking down the perpetrators behind some of the worst international crises in recent memory. Bennett, a divorced mother of five, can match the birthdate…

Fashion Shows My Son, the Prince of Fashion I took my son to Paris Fashion Week, and all I got was a profound understanding of who he is, what he wants to do with his life, and how it feels to watch a grown man stride down a runway wearing shaggy yellow Muppet pants. Half an hour late, and just…

On the 16th April 1964 the Beatles, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr, were on the cusp between stardom and mega-stardom.

In Let’s Playlist , the Gameological staff assembles a themed lineup of video game music and packages it in a YouTube playlist. But we’re just providing the start. It’s up to you to nominate your own candidates and fill out the list (with a YouTube link if you can find it, please). We’ll choose our…

Day One The morning of our departure I woke in the dark, Rachel and the baby breathing softly beside me. An oval of light worked its way over the knotty pine of the Adak ’s stateroom, cast by the sodium floodlights of a herring seiner passing in the channel. Lying there I could see my upcoming trip…

Laura met George in the pages of Reader’s Digest . In just a couple of column inches, she read an abridged version of his biography and was instantly intrigued. In the 1960s, apparently, egotistical scientist George Price discovered an equation that explained the evolution of altruism, then…

A new study of the porn industry tries to sidestep ideological battles, with a neutral, fact-driven approach. Credit Photo Illustration by Sara Cwynar If you watch pornography, it’s likely that you do so on the Internet. The days when consuming pornography meant buying or borrowing a pinup magazine…

News & Culture One Easter Sunday, the Alaska Ranger —a fishing boat out of Dutch Harbor—went down in the Bering Sea, 6,000 feet deep and thirty-two degrees cold. Forty-seven people were on board, and nearly half of them would spend hours floating alone in the darkness, in water so frigid it can kill…

Read more Exclusive interview: Edward Snowden lauds “courageous” asylum seekers who sheltered him The covert scheme to dodge U.S. attempts to arrest Snowden could have been ripped from the pages of a spy thriller. The fugitive was disguised in a dark hat and glasses and transported by car at night…

COOROM, Uganda — Ask Dominic Ongwen’s relatives what he was like as a boy, and they give the bland answers familiar to any crime reporter probing a suspect’s background. Bright. Kind. Never any trouble. “He loved hunting birds,” remembers Madeline Akot, an aunt. “He would make a hole in a papaya…

Everyone who played Epic Mafia knew Eris, or at least knew of him. In real life, he was a 32-year-old computer programmer, who lived alone with his border

As I write this, I am producing 11.584 billion cookies per second. I employ 150 grandmas to bake my cookies, along with

The Geneva Freeport, which may be the world’s most valuable storage facility, consists of seven beige warehouses and a large

“Hey, John, can we talk for a second?”I guess I should have known. But I have absolutely no idea what’s coming.I’m in the weight room, hanging out with the guys,

What is it the poet said? Like muffled drums, our hearts beat a funeral march to the grave. And so it is that Bryant Gumbel, a man who is nothing if not prepared, keeps a list of his pallbearers. This is an article from the Sept. 26, 1988 issue Who has been true? Who has transgressed? Though only…

One night last fall in Los Angeles, two rising comedians met each other for drinks. The situation could’ve been awkward, since Courtney Pauroso, a sketch comic at the Groundlings theater, and Beth Stelling, a stand-up comedian who has performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live and Conan , didn’t actually know…

You find yourself in a hotel room in a strange city, like a character in the first scene of a videogame. Take a second to get oriented, to remember

Every day, whenever I had the chance, I’d visit the office at A and R Recording’s 799 7th Avenue facility to take a look at the scheduling “book.”

There may have been a stranger and more lurid case in the federal appeals courts in 2015 than that of Gilberto Valle, the "cannibal cop." But if there was, I haven’t heard of it -- and it doesn’t carry the same high probability of going to the U.S. Supreme Court. A divided panel of the U.S. Court of…

This essay, which is featured in our forthcoming Winter issue, was originally given as a lecture during the 2015 Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop.

I gave a talk on Virginia Woolf a few years ago. During the question-and-answer period that followed it, the subject that seemed to most interest a number of

Every year, roughly 40,000 people die in Minnesota. For some, it’s weeks or months before anyone finds them. Meet the crew who comes in to clean up the mess. By Andy Mannix | December 3, 2015 MinnPost photo by Mike Dvorak Editor's note: This story contains graphic descriptions that may be unsuitable…

Rick Dyer’s Believe It Or Not! A team of Bigfoot believers, a legion of “Haters,” more than one Walmart parking lot, and the showman at the center of it all. Illustration by Paul Blow I. To Believe or Not to Believe Things got weird, as they so often do, in a Walmart parking lot. Amarillo has three…

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Mark Hogencamp in his garden adjusting some of his 1/6th figures of SS men and paratroopers.Photograph: Tim Knox for the Guardian M ark Hogancamp woke up one day in terrible pain in an unfamiliar room. His memory was gone. He looked up at the ceiling and tried to piece together what had happened. He…

American Horror Story: The Cecil Hotel It started out as a routine missing persons case. But by the time the internet was done with her, Elisa Lam had become a macabre celebrity, a conspiracy magnet—and the inspiration for a TV series. Look for the highlights and *footnotes On January 27, 2013,…

There's something in my head about small groups, and consultancy, and coffee mornings. It's a hypothesis I'm running with to shape my own practice, and I'm darned if I can get it on paper. What's in my head isn't an essay, it's more like a mini Wikipedia of articles and associations. I chat with…

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Max Martin, pictured at the 2015 Grammy Awards, has written nearly two dozen No. 1 songs, for performers including Britney Spears, Katy Perry, and Taylor Swift. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL TRAN / FILMMAGIC VIA GETTY Among the stranger aspects of recent pop music history is how so many of the…