Longform

The adventures of a pro bono gigolo.

A Montana sheriff and a manhunt in the mountains.

A profile of photographer Bill Cunningham.

Lee Berger is unquestionably a paleoanthropologist. But is he a visionary or a hype artist?

Phil Locke made millions charging working people 400% interest. Then he had a change of heart.

Steve Miller had a clear-cut legal case when the Geto Boys used his guitar-hook in their raunchy 1990 single “Gangster of Love.” The racial implications weren’t so simple.

Excerpted from The Geto Boys(Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series, 2016) .

A profile of Stanley Kubrick written by his longtime friend.

The International Criminal Court embodied the hope of bringing warlords and demagogues to justice. Then Luis Moreno-Ocampo took on the heir to Kenya’s most powerful political dynasty.

In 1990, Judith Butler published a groundbreaking book on queer theory. Today, “in a broad-stroke, vastly simplified version, the understanding of gender that Gender Trouble suggests is not only recognizable; it is pop.”

“Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy.”

Secular crises of two workers at a religious camp.

“Things don’t just flow out of your brain. It’s not like, Hey, I’m brilliant. Show up, paper right here, bam, another banger. No—you sit and you struggle with yourself and you stop cutting your hair. I’m not cutting my hair right now. You stop shaving, like I’m not shaving right now. You remember that you can fail. I’ve failed several times. The fact that everybody else don’t see that don’t give me the right to not see it.”

“There’s no blueprint for remediating a radioactive town and then moving people back into it.”

Over the past five years, the Syrian government has killed almost 700 medical personnel. Inside the race to spread medical knowledge as the Assad regime erases it.

With The BFG, the filmmaker tackles childhood’s possibilities and terrors once again.

A dispatch from a Russian town under siege by hungry bears.

A former Ohio National Guardsman recalls being dunked on by LeBron James as a teenager — and how the James helped get him through the Iraq War.

The 22-year-old rapper on escaping North Long Beach and his desire to be a “regular” guy.

“When I was covering the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, was there a real difference between my wanting to get to the village or hospital where people were dying terrible deaths, and my wanting people to be dying terrible deaths in whatever village or hospital I happened to be going to? Every assignment presents some variation of that question.”

How a 27-year-old went from PR underling to gatekeeper.

Cars driving themselves into walls. Hospitals frozen. Elevators jammed. A scenario that could happen based on what already has.