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The precocious coder, hacker visionary, and “pirate” was already a tech legend by the time he’d turned 17. But in the weeks since his suicide last month, at 26, his friends and comrades have tried to turn him into something else—a martyr.

Steven Pinker’s new history is vivid on the brutality of premodern life. And blind to the depravity of our own.

The family for whom the truth is more important than the money.

What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends?

A survivor tests the boundaries of just how far a memoir of child abuse should go.

They expressed, with perfect fidelity, a city’s collective delight at the start of summer.

Shopping for Kafka with the Wall Street oracle turned aphorist and self-described flâneur.

Evan Kohlmann spends his days lurking in the darkest corners of the Internet, where jihadists recruit sympathizers from across the globe. He has testified in over two dozen terrorism trials— and sees danger everywhere he looks. Is he prescient or naïve?

Tony Judt’s dazzling, cantankerous brain is one of this city’s great treasures. Now, two years into a devastating battle with ALS, it is all he has left.

So there’s this iPhone app called Grindr. It’s a GPS-enabled social-networking service for gay men. It tells you how many feet away a possible hookup is standing.