Longform

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.

Investigating San Francisco’s OneTaste, which promises personal and professional success through the practice of orgasmic meditation.

An animal's corpse disrupts a humdrum workday in this early story by Eleanor Catton, the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize.

On the science of being fooled.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool.

Investigating the spike in Afghan-on-American military murders.

A Hells Angel informant’s path from destruction to redemption and back, and a family’s trouble with witness protection.

A basketball player, broke and without a Plan B, travels across the country for one last shot at glory.

“Why do people laugh when tickled? Why can’t you tickle yourself? Why are certain parts of the body more ticklish than others? Why do some people enjoy tickling and others not? And what is tickling, after all?”

Traveling with a sex tourist to the Uzbek city of Tashkent. Excerpted from the forthcoming book If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai.

The bumpy ride from St. Petersburg and Moscow, through a Russia slipping back into the 19th century.

The author on her childhood in Wingham, Ontario.

Daisy Coleman, new to town and a cheerleader, was 14. Matthew Barnett, a 17-year-old football player and the grandson of a longtime politician, was 17. The evidence pointed overwhelmingly toward rape. There was even a video. Yet the charges were dropped. Then the people of Maryville, Missouri, set about running the Colemans out of town.

Meet Ladar Levison, Edward Snowden’s email provider.

Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and his four years of production on Gravity.

“She taught me the tricks of trimming. She taught me to smile when my back ached. She taught me some Bengali words. Sab bhalo. It is all okay.”