Longreads

On a warm evening in early June, patrons in summer khakis filled the restaurant patios of Boystown, the north-side gay bastion marked by rainbow pylons and suggestively named bars. Just up the block…

Dharun Ravi grew up in Plainsboro, New Jersey, in a large, modern house with wide expanses of wood flooring and a swimming pool out back. Assertive and athletic, he used…

Bobby Fischer's shadow is 40 years long. For decades, when people have talked about American chess, they have talked about Fischer. He's a tough legend to live up to and a mildly terrifying one…

AS we floated in a Moroccan-tiled pool on the outskirts of Palm Springs, Calif., my boyfriend of three months told me about an old English custom in which two people are married if they chant “I marry thee” three times, clap in unison and kiss. Finding his story charming and amusing, I laughed.