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You don’t often find a true crime journalist who lives on the other side of the bars, but, then, John J. Lennon isn’t your typical crime writer. Which is why Michael Shane Hale — Shane, for short — trusted him with his story for Lennon’s debut book, The Tragedy of …

John Prine never had a chance to write his own memoir. But in the late 2010s, he’d begun working on one with the author Tom Piazza. After Prine died in 2020 — from complications due to Covid-19 — Piazza revisited the series of trips, encounters and conversations he’d had with …

The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy(Little, Brown) by James Patterson and Vicky Ward, out July 14, tells the story of the college murders that took place in Moscow, Idaho in November 2022. As the title suggests, the book takes the reader into the lives of the four victims: Kaylee Goncalves, …

On Jan. 29, 2025, the Ministry of Health of Uganda officially declared an Ebola outbreak in Kampala, with 10 confirmed cases reported as of March. This marks the eighth Ebola outbreak in Uganda since 2000. The hemorrhagic virus is highly infectious and fatal, prompting public health officials to seek containment. …

For those who came of age during the early days of MTV, Peter Wolf will forever be known as the frontman of the J. Geils Band, whose “Centerfold” and “Freeze Frame” videos were as much a channel staple as Nina Blackwood’s mane. But Wolf’s career and adventures in music didn’t …

As Better Call Saul headed into its homestretch, fans were abuzz with how the acclaimed Breaking Bad prequel would end. What would happen to Saul-only characters like Kim Wexler and Lalo Salamanca? How much would we see of events from the Breaking Bad years, and how much more time would …

I n his new book Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital, Rolling Stone senior writer David Browne details the rich and often complex history of New York City’s creative hotbed. Even as it coped with hassles from the city, the neighborhood, landlords, …

Owen Elliot-Kugell was just seven years old when her mother, “Mama” Cass Elliot, died of a heart attack in 1974. Since then, she’s tried to untangle the myth of the hippie icon — especially the insensitive rumor that she died choking on a ham sandwich — and discover who she …

David Feldman, the founder of the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC), the fastest-growing combat sport in the world, is facing the fight of his life: therapy. “I go once a week and within two minutes I’m crying like fuck,” he says. “I just keep uncovering everything.” It’s a 72-degree day …

What are American guns doing in Mexico? This question first came to me nearly a decade ago while working as an EMT treating wounded migrants who were risking their lives trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. I wanted to understand what role high-powered weapons, easily bought in the U.S., played …