Longform

Inside an industrial pig farm.

The underground economy of child sex trafficking, and what happens after someone is rescued from it.

The economics of climate change and the end of humanity.

Wes Anderson, the Wilson brothers and Bottle Rocket.

“I mean, writers are horribly envious and so nobody likes stars, we always feel like it’s a zero-sum game and whatever stardom somebody else has is being taken directly from us, so we hate the stars. But we also need them. Because the possibility of some level of stardom is what will continue to attract new writers to the game. If you’re a linguistically talented 22-year-old, there’s a list of things you can be: you can work in Hollywood, you can be a blogger, etc. And if being a novelist equates to some quaint thing like being a Morris dancer, who’s going to choose this?”

The capitalist evangelism of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In feminist manifesto.

On the life and death of Elliott Smith.

A family’s journey from Armenia to Syria and back again.

How citizen journalists are covering the war.

A jeweler from Queens tries to crack the code.

A visit to Star Axis, a desert art installation that connects you to the cosmos.

Jamie Leigh Jones’s story of gang-rape in Iraq changed the law to help victims, even though she might not have been one herself.

Tyson on his childhood in Brooklyn and the man who changed his life. An excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Undisputed Truth.

The homeless population of New York City is higher than it’s been in decades. Nobody seems to notice.

On the personal genetic sequencing company 23andMe and why their long time term strategy is collecting spit, not cash.

Last year, a group of young Romanians stole millions of euros worth of art from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. They had previously only robbed homes and thought the artwork would be easy to sell. It was not. So they secreted it back home, where, in an effort to save her son, the leader’s mother burned it.

When an antsy tech entrepreneur takes over a struggling newspaper.

How sectarian violence has made life in northern Nigeria “incomprehensibly frightful.”

The authors spend time in Concord, Mass., with people who impersonate Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

After two cycling-related deaths, the social fitness network becomes a target.

The Giant Pacific Octopus is, in the words of a Seattle conservationist, a “glamour animal.” It is also tasty. Therein lies the conflict.

An analysis of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Cotton Tenants, the original manuscript.