Longform

A Pultzer-winning Washington Post book critic on descending into poverty as he aged.

Between 1996 and 2015, the number of working-age adults receiving federal disability payments increased dramatically — but nowhere more so than in rural America. This is one man’s story.

Hundreds of people have gone missing on remote public lands. Who’s responsible for finding them?

A mystery unfolds in an English mansion.

In the era of cord-cutting and mobile viewing, ESPN is at the crossroads.

The story of The Anarchist Cookbook and why its creator, William Powell, regrets writing the book.

The annual tradition in the grape-growing country of South Africa’s Western Cape was that locals could gather fruit before it rotted on the vine. But this season produced a body amongst the rows.

An interview with Dylan, 75, on the power of recording standards.

Meet the giant green rock that seduces and destroys.

In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children have fallen unconscious after being informed that their families will be expelled from the country. The patients, doctors say, seem to have lost the will to live.

Traditions, feuds, and controversies in British pest control.

Danny Rubin wrote the movie and then the musical 24 years later. What happens when one thing becomes your entire life?

Come to his Dilbert-shaped home. Bite into a Dilberito. Be persuaded on genocide, mental orgasms, and his fellow Master Wizard, the president of the United States.

South Florida is being overrun with cane toads, which can weigh almost six pounds. No one knows why they are swelling in numbers or when their population growth will slow.

On the health care failure and what, if anything, comes next.

A day with ESPN’s NFL scoopmaster.

Cheap wages, little training, and crushed limbs.

For insect detectives, the trickiest cases involve the bugs that aren’t really there.

Rise of the wonk.

A profile of Rei Kawakubo, an artist of few words who changed women’s fashion.

Cyril the Swan was the mascot for a low-level soccer club in the UK. He was known for fighting with other mascots. And refs. And opposing coaches. He also saved the club’s financial fortunes. Then the nine-foot-tall bird became the prime suspect in a serious assault.

Searching for the world’s most prolific bank robber.

Was the biggest record sale in the history of Discogs actually someone selling the record to themself? Was a serial hoaxer who had posed as Jimi Hendrix’s son in blackface actually behind both the 1989 album and its 2017 sale?

The violent history of a city.