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Another Tourist Has Died Seeking the “Into the Wild” Bus

River crossing proves fatal on a hazardous trek

6 Thrilling Books About Real-Life Corruption

Where money and power collide, and ethics are nowhere to be found

Revisiting Gore Vidal’s Crime Fiction

How a trio of subversive mystery novels helped reinvent the famed author

Why Raymond Chandler Still Matters

Eighty years after the publication of "The Big Sleep," there must be something about Chandler’s books that transcends their outdatedness

The Great American Beer Novel Is Here, and We Talked to the Guy Who Wrote It

J. Ryan Stradal's "The Lager Queen of Minnesota" is a novel about family, Minnesota and light beer

Haunting Photos Show the Gritty Side of 1970s Tokyo

Images from Greg Girard's "Tokyo-Yokosuka 1976-1983"

Did Playwright Sam Shepard Predict the Future?

Revisiting one writer's take on America in 2019

How Thomas Edison and Henry Ford Created the Modern Road Trip

The American innovators called themselves "the Vagabonds"

Inside One of the Most Spectacular and Dangerous Bank Heists in U.S. History

An excerpt from Peter Houlahan's thrilling new book, "Norco '80"

How M. F. K. Fisher Changed How We Think About Food

Ruth Reichl on the cultural impact of the legendary writer

Adapting “Game of Thrones” in Tapestry Form

Telling the story of 8 seasons across 300 feet

Menswear Lessons From Dapper Dan

The style icon’s memoir is due out on July 9

MAD Magazine to Cease Printing New Material

The long-running humor publication is shifting to an anthology format

‘The Walking Dead’ Just Abruptly Ended, But TV Fans Shouldn’t Worry

The comic book source material was surprisingly terminated by its creator

8 Books You Should Read This July

New noir, Dapper Dan's memoir and Colson Whitehead's latest. It's Christmas in July!