What It Takes is the most comprehensive account ever written about the personal price of running for president.

When he looks back at his father, he sees a dim figure losing its substance to sickness, and when the past is a cipher, there is no redeeming the present. There is only living it.

It’s convention time, an ideal moment to revisit Norman Mailer's legendary 1960 reported essay, “Superman Comes to the Supermarket,” about JFK and the Democratic political convention.

The closing of the Four Seasons, home of the “power lunch.”

Do you smell that? That’s another Michael Bay movie burning up the box office. And if that bothers you, if you think he’s just another schlockmeister with fancy cars and testosterone problems, all he can say is, shame on you!

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

John H. Richardson on our cultural infatuation with celebrity and the humanity that lurks on both sides of the camera lens.

The Shooter, by Phil Bronstein

In the year 2015, with GPS and satellites and global surveillance everywhere all the time, how does a massive airplane simply go missing?

The furious saga of Teddy Ballgame.