The story of Southern Flight 242.

On the ground with U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

A married father of two tracks down his free-living doppelgänger, a musician who has avoided responsibility at every turn, to see who’s happier.

One man’s stories from the early days of the NBA.

Eco-tourism in the Himalayas.

The valley is everything you’d want and more. An icy milky river thunders over rocks and below steep wooded slopes are lush fields where people are working the land, oblivious to the Gore-Tex procession. Oblivious but not unaffected: the houses are smart, the prayer wheels freshly painted, just about everyone has a mobile phone, it seems, and is on it, and there are very few places you can’t get a signal around here. This is not really the place to come if you’re looking for peace and quiet.

Participating in the Dakar Rally.

A profile of Laura Knight, a Florida mother of five who investigates the paranormal.

In 1987, a terrible accident kills five Ole Miss sorority members. The author catches up with her Chi Omega sisters who survived.

Yearning for conception.

The author tracked down “the other” Alan — Alan Z. Feuer — for a story last year. After the other Alan’s death, however, the author learns the truth about the society man’s humble past.

An advertising copywriter adjusts to daily life in Paris, and works in a dysfunctional office.

Office culture in Paris held that it was each person’s responsibility, upon arrival, to visit other people’s desks and wish them good morning, and often kiss each person once on each cheek, depending on the parties’ personal relationship, genders, and respective positions in the corporate hierarchy. Then you moved on to the next desk.

Not everyone did it, but those who did not were noticed and remarked upon.

The author of Truly Tasteless Jokes unmasks herself.