Long before Christopher McCandless became a symbol, a warning and a lingering question, he was simply a 24-year-old with a journal, a camera and a hard, lonely idea about freedom. In the summer of ...

To some, the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, the 24-year-old Emory University graduate who starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness in the spring of 1992, will never be anything more than a ...

To the editor: I’ll admit to mixed feelings about the Museum of the North restoring the bus in which Christopher McCandless took his final breath in 1992. Like it or not, his story is enmeshed in ...