Gone Baby Gone
A new breed of real estate investor is destroying America’s cities.
A New Last Chance
For decades, “abnormal” embryos were thrown away during the IVF process. Then some pioneering doctors — and patients — decided to use them anyway.
A Decomposing Body, 10 Duped Girlfriends and the Saga of the 'Alien' Con Man in Hollywood's Backyard
The story of a Pacific Palisades con man named Jeffrey Lash.
Natural Human Behavior
Inside the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, “an opaque system that literally disappears people” accused of immigrating illegally.
My Drowning (And Other Inconveniences)
The author didn’t plan to write about that 2014 trip through the Grand Canyon. Then he died.
The Making and Unmaking of Iggy Azalea
From chart-topper to cautionary tale in three years.
How to Kill a Possum
“So there we were, two women armed with nothing but master’s degrees and suburban upbringings, pointing our iPhones at a wild animal, trying to figure out what the fuck to do next.”
Cottage Country Murder
Police have dragged the lake. They’ve dug up property. They’ve brought in dogs. But after twenty years, they still can’t find the bodies of the four missing seniors in Muskoka.
Game: Interrupted
How a teenage gamer in the hottest new esport, Overwatch, became a reluctant icon for South Korea’s feminist movement.
Stephen King: The Art of Fiction No. 189
I don’t think there’s anything that I’m not afraid of, on some level. But if you mean, What are we afraid of, as humans? Chaos. The outsider. We’re afraid of change. We’re afraid of disruption, and that is what I’m interested in.”
Speak, Memory
On the fallibility of memory.
The Sorrow and the Shame of the Accidental Killer
Life after unintentionally causing someone else’s death.
The David Carr Generation
Memories from journalists he mentored.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Worlds from the Word's End"
A letter outlines the history and eventual decline of human communications.
A Weird MIT Dorm Dies, and a Crisis Blooms at Colleges
Senior House was a haven for creative outsiders. In a move that is being echoed on campuses around the country, administrators said it was dangerous and shut it down.
RT, Sputnik and Russia’s New Theory of War
How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century — and why it may be impossible to stop.
The Girl Gangs of El Salvador
In El Salvador, more and more young women are choosing—or being forced into—gang life.
Welcome to the Far Eastern Conference
On former Knicks savior Stephon Marbury and his post-NBA life playing in China.
Hillary Clinton is the former Democratic nominee for president. Her new book is What Happened.
“I hugged a lot of people after [my concession speech] was over. A lot of people cried … and then it was done. So Bill and I went out and got in the back of the van that we drive around in, and I just felt like all of the adrenaline was drained. I mean there was nothing left. It was like somebody had pulled the plug on a bathtub and everything just drained out. I just slumped over. Sat there. … And then we got home, and it was just us as it has been for so many years—in our little house, with our dogs. It was a really painful, exhausting time.”
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In Conversation: John Cleese
“We’re living in the age of assholes now.”
The Perfect Wife
How Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage.
St. Vincent Is Telling You Everything
A profile of the artist at the time of her fifth solo record.
Could Father Mychal Judge Be the First Gay Saint?
Inside the campaign to canonize the fire department chaplain who died on September 11.
The Secret History of FEMA
The origins of the misunderstood agency.
Meltdown
The writer travels with his father to Iceland and Greenland.
