Longform

The art of the voiceover.

For at least 130 years, cabbies in London have been taking what many believe is the hardest test in the world: through a series of oral exams that takes four years to complete, they must prove that know every one of the city’s 25,000 streets, every business and every landmark.

Thoughts on race and adoption.

A jury recommends life in prison; the judged orders a death sentence.

On an African-American entrepreneur and race in Silicon Valley.

Sixteen years after he was exposed as the most fraudulent journalist of his generation, Stephen Glass is confronted by an old friend.

“Fuck everything, I thought. Bring on the cascading interventions. And they came.”

The inside story of how the city, broke and bleak and nearing the edge, saved itself.

L’Wren Scott went from bullied Mormon teen to international model to Hollywood stylist to fashion designer, becoming Mick Jagger’s girlfriend in the process. In March, she took her own life.

Mars One says it will send four people to colonize the planet by 2025. The company claims more than 200,000 have paid to apply for the privilege. But a deep look at Mars One’s plan and its finances reveals that not only is the goal a longshot, it might be a scam.

He was America’s first celebrity chef, setting the hedonistic tone of California cuisine in the ’70s and ’80s. Then Jeremiah Tower lost his restaurant and ended up in Mexico, exiled from the booming culinary culture he helped create. Now, at 71, he’s coming home to take over the kitchen at Tavern on the Green.

The story of Brownie Wise, the woman who made Tupperware a household name.

The magician who spent his life debunking spiritualists and exposing con men.

A son, the illusion of his dead father and where technology intersects with real life.

Don’t read the comments.

The story of a call center virtuoso.

Migos, a young Atlanta rap trio, has decamped to a mansion outside of town to avoid trouble, ride Go-Karts, shop for $2300 backpacks, and continue their streak of red-hot singles.

After a Hasidic man exposed child abuse, his tight-knit Brooklyn community turned on him.

A history of the war between Amazon and the book industry.

The rise of anonymous group suicide in Japan.

The central witness in “one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history” speaks out.

Alfred Dellentash Jr. chartered the Rolling Stones in private jets while smuggling planeloads of Pablo Escobar’s drugs on the side.