“Look,” said the director, “I’ve got the perfect actor for Oscar Wilde. Vincent Price.” The producers looked blank, and then...

The dawn of a living horror comedy

The bitter '77 season killed the joys of baseball for the Yankee star

This man has spent the last twenty years preparing to defend us. As he, and America, head off to war, we thought you should get to know him.

It’s been called the Crater, the Pile, the Hole, the Reckoning, Ground Zero. There, in utter calamity, a village formed to reclaim the ground that had been lost. For some, it was duty; for others, obsession. Some heroes, some thieves. The author survived the falling towers and was the only journalist who stayed for twelve days more. This is the story of the village he lived in, of the life at the edge of death

A hurdler in inner space

Lloyd Daniels is a New York playground hero with icy moves and a bullet in his back. Jerry Tarkanian is the renegade coach who lured him west, where together they fell from grace. In San Antonio, the last quarter is about to begin

If you’re gonna love America’s pastime, you’re gonna have to learn to love Paul Assenmacher

Why did a district attorney lift weights in his underwear? How did the Star of India sapphire get into a toilet tank? When did the go-between eat the tip-off note? Never mind what you’ve read before, this is what happened

Could the inspiring tale of a blind basketball player give a man’s lover the faith to return to him?

Smokers don’t need our pity, as the legions of lawyers lining up to sue big tobacco assert. They don’t need the lawsuits, either. In fact, they deserve our praise. An argument in the form of a story.

Requiem for Ruben Salazar

She’s getting stronger and stronger and stronger

One evening, Matt Shaunfield overdosed on heroin and died. In the past two years, as many as ten more kids in Plano, Texas, have died for their love of the drug. This had never happened to Plano. It also had never happened to Austin or Orlando or Boulder or any of the other places in America designed to keep harm away.

Not long ago, the brilliant doctor had AIDS on the ropes, and the world tried to make him a celebrity. Now the virus counterattacks. A little peace and quiet, if you don't mind.