Life and Death in Assisted Living
An investigation into the big and often troubling business of caring for aging Americans.
Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?
Shortly before leaving Goldman Sachs, Sergey Aleynikov downloaded around 32mb of source code from their high-frequency stock-trading system. Even as he was sent away for an eight year bid in federal prison, no one seemed to fully understand exactly what he did.
My Week in North Korea
Playing tourist in the isolated nation.
In the Violent Favelas of Brazil
Rampant rape and murder in the Brazilian slums.
To Live, the Oyster Must Die
The fight to save a “delicious gold mine.”
Stephen King’s Family Business
Inside a family of novelists.
Kelley Benham is a writer and editor at the Tampa Bay Times.
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Elegy of a Race Car Driver
The life and sudden death of NASCAR’s Dick Trickle.
Sponsor: Michael Paterniti Answers Questions From His Editor
The author of The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese, interviewed by his editor, Andy Ward, about storytelling, literary heroes, and why the book took him 10 years to write.
Detachment
On the scientific research of Romanian orphans.
Harlan Ellison Isn’t Dead Yet
The cult author, 57 years into his writing career.
Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History
What remains of the past’s cutting edge.
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What the Hell Happened to David Duval?
A once-great golfer’s private second act.
A Hollywood Ending
An older brother’s murder and its aftermath.
On the Road with Memère
A mother-son bus trip from Florida to Juarez.
The Serial Killer Has Second Thoughts: The Confessions of Thomas Quick
After a botched bank robbery in 1990, Sture Bergwall, aka Thomas Quick, confessed to a string of brutal crimes. He admitted to stabbings, stranglings, incest and cannibalism. He was convicted of eight murders in all, and after the final trial he went silent for nearly a decade. But a few years ago, Bergwall came forward again—there was one more secret he had to tell.
Trial by Twitter
Was justice served in Steubenville?
Deadly Silence: How the Inner Circles, Of Medicine and Sports, Failed a Stricken Star
On the death of NBA star Reggie Lewis.
Wildcatting: A Stripper's Guide to the Modern American Boomtown
Cycles of boom and bust in the drilling town of Williston, N.D., as seen from the perspective of an itinerant dancer filling one of three slots at the only strip club in town, Whispers.
Something More Wrong
Inside the women’s ward at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
The Pink Panthers
From a Tokyo smash-and-grab to driving a car through the window of a Dubai jewelry shop, how a ragtag band of Balkan thieves set a new bar for audacious heists.
A member of the Pink Panthers, Milan Poparic, escaped from prison yesterday.
Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?
The long road to a potential breakthrough.
The Lady Jaguars
A profile of the girls basketball team at Carroll Academy, a school run by a rural Tennessee juvenile court.
Greece's Unemployed Young
When there are too few jobs for an entire generation.
