This American Life Archive

The pleasure and the terror of being in a rampaging, angry mob.

All those people you see in the middle of the workday, in coffee shops and bookstores—why aren't they at work?

Stories of people revisiting what happened, and who they were back when.

Stories of people who tell a lie and then believe the lie more than anyone else does.

Exactly how much are the animals that live in our home caught up in everyday family dynamics?

The story of the book The Lonely Doll and its author, and how the author's life came to resemble something from her book.

What if you held onto a high-school crush? Under what conditions would it never go away? Tobias Wolff reads a short story called "Kiss."

Stories from the New Hampshire primary. We hear from voters who've found candidates they love. And we hear what those voters are seeing that the rest of us aren't.

Stories of kids trying to act like adults—some by choice—some because they're forced to.

In the hospital, we're in a place that has its own rules and its own language and its own customs.