Longform

A novelist’s memoir of depression, whose “intrinsic malevolence” as a disease brought him close to suicide.

How the author’s father wrote over 400 pieces of “pirate porn, ghost porn, science-fiction porn, vampire porn, historical porn, time-travel porn, secret-agent porn, thriller porn, zombie porn and Atlantis porn.”

The transcript of chats between Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht and a man he believes to be a Hell’s Angel who agrees to supply “hitters” to carry out 5 assassinations.

Irina Pavolva is trying to steer the Brooklyn Nets through a rough patch. Will she make it?

A journalist and documentarian charts over a decade of her relationship with Philip Roth.

Even the dumpster divers of America are becoming tech-savvy, well-earning entrepreneurs.

"Some of you probably think it’s a bad thing to group ourselves according to skin color—the lighter the better—in social clubs, neighborhoods, churches, sororities, even colored schools. But how else can we hold on to a little dignity?"

Seth Rogen, Amy Pascal, and the inside story of Sony’s hacking saga.

The shame of family detention camps on the U.S. border.

The voices we generally hear on public radio reflect only a narrow range of experiences, particularly with regards to race. There’s a cost to that.

Aging, enhancement, and the hormone.

The North Korean dictator kidnaps a famous actress and her film director husband, then invites them to dinner to chat about it.

Trolls are frustrating, cruel and frightening creatures of the internet deep. But something surprising happens when one writer tries to deal with the worst of hers: He turns out to have a conscience.

How Harper Lee was duped into signing away the rights to To Kill a Mockingbird, which still sells 750,000 copies per year, and how she’s fighting to get them back.

A baby dies after hitting his head when his father drops him, and the investigation that ensues can’t offer any easy answers.

Perhaps you didn’t know that in addition to being a very funny writer, Kafka’s life yields a lot of comedy too.

Renovating often involves additional, unforseen costs, but for one Toronto couple it ends in divorce – and death.

A good trip on psilocybin might be just the ticket to relieve anxiety and depression, particularly in the terminally ill. But are we ready to dive back in to psychedelic research?

The physical rigors of pregnancy tangle with the personal ambitions of a war photojournalist, without limiting her in the least.

Ripping out the guts of an “utterly preposterous document”: the Starr Report on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

One of Europe’s poorest countries wanted a road, so U.S. mega-contractor Bechtel sold it a $1.3 billion highway, with the backing of a powerful American ambassador. Funny thing is, the highway is barely being used—and the ambassador is now working for Bechtel.

"Really, the ideas and theories we form about others and their motivations are just as much portraits of ourselves as they are descriptions of other people. It’s impossible for them to be anything else, when you think about it."

On the coming age of domestic drones.