Longform

Dinner with the novelist, the book critic and “Myshkin, a 14-year-old female dachshund who is deaf but decidedly not mute.”

Dillie Nerios’s job is to convince people food is a right, not a luxury.

The harrowing first ascent of the mountain’s West Ridge.

On the drone strikes that killed Anwar al-Awlaki and his U.S.-born son.

The sole survivor of a 1966 shipwreck tells his tale.

A collection of war stories told by women who have seen combat while serving in the U.S. military.

Fifty years ago, a gay, cross-dressing, black singer named Jackie Shane scored a surprise radio hit. A few years later, he disappeared.

“Dan Seavey stepped ashore the docks of Grand Haven, Michigan, armed with two of the most dangerous weapons known to man: booze and bad intentions.” The story of the early 20th century’s fiercest Great Lakes pirate.

A trip to an uncompromising cattle ranch.

In Ramapo, New York, the immigrant community and the growing population of Hasidic Jews had eyed each increasing wariness for years. Then the Hasidim took over the public schools, schools their children do not attend, and proceeded to gut them.

On the history of Earth Day and the failure of the modern environmental movement.

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling needed funding for his ambitious video-game startup. Rhode Island politicians needed jobs and a vision for how to transform the state’s beleaguered economy. The story of a $75 million bet gone bust.

The growth of an immersive universe that is “part game and part soap opera and part shadow economy.”

“He has hit rock bottom, and he just hasn’t accepted it yet.” Basketball’s iconoclast is a broke recluse at 37.

A profile of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Why our old narratives about race and culture “just don’t fit anymore.”

Ana Montes was a decorated U.S. intelligence analyst. She was also a Cuban spy.

On “Operation Bambi,” the secret plan to oust “Today” show co-host Ann Curry.

Edna Kelly’s brain goes under the knife.

How to get high in America – legally.

A profile of the spy writer.