FAST LEARNER

Hunter Greene has thrown 100 mph since he was a teenager. Last year, by learning to really pitch, he fulfilled his potential as the Reds' ace.

SPEED THRILLS

Once unthinkable, eye-popping pitching velocity has become the norm

FAST COMPANY

Tennessee has produced its share of hard-throwers. Enter Liam Doyle and 'the best fastball in the country.'

LAYING A FOUNDATION

How Kansas used junior college transfers to build a top 25 program

WORLD FARE

Which MLB organizations are signing the most international prospects?

SPEED KING

The incredible Aroldis Chapman stands alone for pure velocity and durability

HEAT WAVE

Elite fastball velocity puts the Mets' Raimon Gomez on a fast track

From Phenom To The Farm

FORMER BALLPLAYERS REFLECT ON PRO SUCCESS AND FAILURE

LEFT TURN

Up to 100 mph, Jack Bauer enters rare velocity range for prep lefthanders

WE'RE ALL LIVING IN A CARL HIAASEN NOVEL

In the mangroves with Florida's poet of excess and grift

Lost at Sea

ON MY FIRST TIME OUT AS A COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN, MY SHIP SANK, MY CAPTAIN DIED, AND I WAS LEFT ADRIFT AND ALONE IN THE PACIFIC.

HOW THE CHICKEN SANDWICH CONQUERED AMERICA

The sun is setting on burger dominance.

MAIL BY MULE

Neither snow nor rain nor 2,000-foot cliffs can stop them.

IS IAN STILL IN THERE?

People in a vegetative state may be far more conscious than was once thought.

From Hollywood to Hitler

In a new novel, Daniel Kehlmann asks why the director G. W. Pabst worked with the Nazis.

THAT '70s FEELING

Trump's tariffs could cause stagflation for the first time in decades. It may go on for a long, long time.

Donald Trump Enjoying Is This

The president explains how he plans to change America forever.

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED

Is popular culture really in terminal decline?

The Not at All Funny Life of Mark Twain

Ron Chernow's biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.

Return of the Shaman

How visionary healers became a fixture of contemporary American culture and politics

When Buckley Met Baldwin

In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn't go quite as Buckley hoped.

The Secret to Happiness

Alison Bechdel has spent a lifetime worrying. In a new graphic novel, she finds something like solace.

ESCAPE FROM KHARTOUM

A family of nine's desperate attempt to find safety in Sudan.

GUITAR HEROES

The duo that collected a secret trove of instruments heading to the Met.

DOCTOR'S ORDERS

It used to be progressives who distrusted experts. What happened?

DEAL OR NO DEAL

Barry Diller recalls a career built as much on serendipity as on strategy.

YOU'RE KILLING ME

Pavement inspires a strange, ironic, loving bio-pic.

ALL THE BILLIONAIRE'S MEN

Is Jeff Bezos selling out the Washington Post?

Fairy Pools

As soon as she touched down in Scotland, she believed in fairies. No, as soon as the rock and velvet of Inverness rushed up to her where she was falling, a long way through the hagstone hole of a cloud, and she plunged down into the center of the cloud and stayed there.

HEAD CASES

Two productions of Strauss's “Salome,” in New York.