Longform

On the renaissance in psychedelic research.

“J.Crew employees reveal themselves by the nakedness of their ankles. It’s as if the company’s uniform, ambiently dictated by Lyons, is enforced only from the knees down.”

Tracing the Boston Marathon route via the people who live and work along its course.

Why almost everything we think we know about the iconic photo from Robinson’s first game is wrong.

On the barely regulated business of looking after kids.

A new era in the search for life on Mars.

An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.

A drunken evening with the Primer and Upstream Color director.

On balancing creative ambition and financial security.

On an Indonesian town that serves both as stopping point for those seeking to reach Australia by boat and a hotspot for short term ‘contract marriage,’ which allows Saudi tourists a loophole to engage in Islamic-sanctioned prostitution.

A profile of the Van Halen frontman.

Life in Green Bank, West Virginia, a town without cell signals and a haven people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (a disease that may or may not exist).

A serial killer attempts to donate an organ.

A profile of Kehinde Wiley, a painter who inserts the “brown faces” that have historically been relegated to the background in Western art.

Charles Pierce’s classic GQ profile of Tiger Woods, annotated.

Solving the mystery of the corpse in the Eleganté Hotel.

An interview with a blotto Lee Marvin.

An investigation into a scholarly hoax.

On the death of a brother.