Longform

A father reflects on his son’s search for employment.

The story of a high school basketball star’s sexual abuse conviction and its aftermath, told from all sides.

An essay on life as “the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the Internet.”

“But to grow up costs the earth, the earth. It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. It’s serious business. And you find out what it costs us to love and to lose, to dare and to fail. And maybe even more, to succeed. What it costs, in truth. Not superficial costs—anybody can have that—I mean in truth. That’s what I write. What it really is like. I’m just telling a very simple story.”

A profile of the internet’s poet, Patricia Lockwood.

Making vision boards with rap’s strangest fallen star.

The author walks to his hometown after the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995.

What led to the death of a 5-year-old boy, “the Everychild in the state system.”

The Chinese team heads to the home of elite running.

On Edward St. Aubyn’s autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels.

On a recent lawsuit over Stairway to Heaven and Led Zeppelin’s deep catalog of songs that were revealed to have been written by others.

Somaly Mam’s harrowing story of her own flight from sexual servitude and the stories of hundreds of girls she rescued from Cambodian brothels brought her fame and helped raise millions for her non-profit. Does it matter if none or few of the stories are true?

But not for want of programmers trying.

When David Sneddon disappeared hiking around western China, officials chalked it up to a drowning. A decade later, it appears he had been kidnapped and taken to North Korea.

The laundry wars of Silicon Valley.

A study in building spaceships.

Tom Cruise did not, in fact, jump up and down on Oprah’s couch.

Deep in the jungle, the tourists were targetted, but only the porters were hacked by the machetes. Was it a robbery? Or a deeper pattern of violence amongst ancient tribes?

On the urge to live in a house you can't afford, the "acceptable lust" of American life.

“Someone has sliced open soccer’s hourglass, and the sand has come pouring out on to the streets.”

Scott Catt was a single dad trying to make ends meet, so he started robbing banks. Then he needed accomplices, so he asked his kids.

The fight over an alleged Israeli war crime.

On the decline of America.