Longform

An accidental evening with Yeats, in the spring of 1937.

She was an overnight YouTube success. Then she tried to make a TV show.

Exploring the possibility that injecting the old with the blood of the young can reverse the aging process.

The black messianic leader, known as Father Divine, that Jim Jones admired.

Who gets out alive when disaster strikes? The people who can afford it.

The costs of a life spent reporting on spies.

A Chinese underwear merchant rises in Egypt.

The woman trophy hunter, notorious for her controversial “hero shot” beside a dead giraffe, profiled.

In Ontario, Canada, ribfests were largely non-profit affairs. Then one man decided to make a profit off their popularity.

The anti-human trafficking stings conducted by Operation Underground Railroad are flashy, exciting, camera-ready. Whether or not they truly help victims is another question.

When all else failed, he commandeered a bus, and saved his neighbors. Now he’s in prison.

A trip to the South African Million Dollar Pigeon Race.

The mutual hatred of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr., punctuated by great insults like “crypto-Nazi.”

He’s got millions of followers on Vine. He’s got sponsors paying him tens of thousands to promote their products. He’s got a vanity license plate that says “AYYYYYYY.” It’s not enough.

A remote nation and a burgeoning humanitarian catastrophe.

The anonymous donations that helped fund new IUDs.

The struggle to build a wine industry in rural China.

The abusive relationship between a Bell Gardens mayor and his wife ends with her firing a gun.

A business opportunity stemming from “a moment in time when the debate over how colleges should address sexual assault has reached a fever pitch.”

Family relationships and the complexities of childhood imagination.

"Out the side door and into the yard. Plastic table, plastic sandbox in the shape of a turtle, two plastic chairs blown over. An empty birdfeeder. Ella had no idea why Blanket would be out here. This was why adventures needed preparation: because once they were underway they were always disappointments. In her backpack the string was unused, the flashlight unlit. She took the fork out just to feel like she had packed more wisely than she did."

What the internet looks like to someone who spent the past six years in an Iranian prison.

The author of The Junction Boys can’t tell you how many times he’s been arrested.

Sometimes your mom keeps the monsters at bay, and sometimes, she is one.