On money, murder and the enduring mystery of Beverly Hills' Greystone Mansion. The estate was once home LA's richest oil tycoon, and is now one of the city's most-used movie locations.

A story about the Last Man competition. Last Man is a loosely organized, annual battle to be the “Last Man in America to Know Who Won the Super Bowl."

"'The House Made of Sugar,' by the late Argentinian writer Silvina Ocampo, is a story about a woman named Cristina who is too superstitious to live in a house that had been previously occupied. Her husband deceives her and when they move into their dream home based upon his lie, strange and worrisome things start to happen that suggest Cristina's fears were warranted. Newly translated into English by Daniel Balderston, with a preface by Borges, Ocampo's stories are unsettling and off-kilter, revelatory and readable."

Our favorite stories of the week, featuring David Carr, California Sunday, New York Review of Books, New Republic, and ESPN.

Can drug dealers be prosecuted for overdose deaths? One Texas city thinks so.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson on the unknowability of Poe and his work, and the difficulty in interpreting Poe’s unusual and only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, which, among other things, is considered to be one of the inspirations for Moby Dick.