The Giants’ running back realized that if he wanted to grow up, he had to quit playing games.

A lot, when one friend just bought a million-dollar apartment and the other is subsisting on frozen dinners.

In his new novel about a Sudanese refugee, Dave Eggers delivers nothing short of genius.

John Cameron Mitchell wants America to stop being scared and start having more sex.

After prep school, he built a thriving business. Now he’s got to find a way to get out of it.

Macaulay Culkin on his first novel, Michael Jackson, and the self-consciousness of fame.

As the gangster epic nears its end, Tony’s soldiers confront the “Big Pussy Rule”: no one lives forever. Welcome to the ultimate whacking party.

Eighties party icon Susanne Bartsch returns to save nightlife from bottle service and Paris Hilton.

In Positively Fifth Street, James McManus turned a week at the World Series of Poker into a rambunctious existential exploration of greed and family, with an epically seedy murder tossed in. His new book, Physical: An American Checkup, takes an equally gonzo approach to the world of medicine.

What’s to be done about out-of-control teenagers? The man who gave us Citi Habitats has a plan to turn a parental self-help group into a company as popular and profitable as Weight Watchers.