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A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.

The author on his mother’s deteriorating health and the “price of longevity.”

For 12 days she was tortured and raped by a former neighbor, who strung her up on a deer-skinning device. On the fourth day, she forgave him.

Twenty-one-year-old Briton Lucie Blackman came to Tokyo and found work in the Roppongi district hostess bars, where businessmen come to flirt with paid companions, and Western women draw a premium fee. Two months later, she disappeared. She would be found underneath a bathtub in a beachside cave.

Ostensibly straight black men who have sex with other men.

How a surgical innovation allowed Dallas Weins to find a new face.

Ina May Gaskin and the battle for at-home births.

A group of Long Island misfits with aspirations towards Satanic worship disappeared into the woods to take mescaline. One of them never came back.

Inside the ultra-Orthodox Jewish rally at Citi Field to discuss the dangers of the internet:

A man in a black fur hat asked him what, exactly, was an app, and he explained it to him. The man grimaced and walked away.

Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s secret surveillance network.

A profile of Univision’s Jorge Ramos.

“What are you doing here?” Loggins asked Janette. Janette thought this an odd question. “It’s Bike to Work Day,” she said. “Did you ride your bike to school?”“Bicycling isn’t allowed at Maple Avenue School,” said Loggins. Janette did a double take. “You’re kidding me,” she said. “Right?”

The story of Nicole Davis, a 25-year-old woman diagnosed with breast cancer six months into her pregnancy.

A painter’s dogged, doomed pursuit of the perfect $100 bill.

The search for a missing ultramarathoner in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, and the life that lead him there.

Portraits from weed country.

A summer as a whorehouse Madame.

A profile of singer-songwriter Will Oldham.

He has settled into character as an uncanny troubadour, singing a sort of transfigured country music, and he has become, in his own subterranean way, a canonical figure. Johnny Cash covered him, Björk has championed him (she invited him to appear on the soundtrack of “Drawing Restraint 9”), and Madonna, he suspects, has quoted him (her song “Let It Will Be” seems to borrow from his “O Let It Be,” though he says, “I’m fully prepared to accept that it’s a coincidence”).

An essay on the “history, meaning and practice of suicide, from third-century Christian death cults to the Aurora Bridge.”

The author reflects on his mayoral run with Norman Mailer against John Lindsay.

At the bar one night a couple of weeks after the primary, I looked up from a drink and saw my face and Norman's face floating across the screen on the NBC First Tuesday show. It is a network thing, and they did a 20-minute look at our campaign. The show reinforced my opinion that Norman and I had some of the most terrific lows in the history of anything that ever took place in this city. And, perhaps, a couple of highs that could be recognized as time passes a bit. Like maybe colleges for years will be using the things Norman Mailer was saying out in the streets.

A profile of former Bosnia Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, whose war crimes trial began, and was abruptly suspended, this week.

A posthumous profile of Whitney Houston.

How Chief Justice John Roberts pulled off Citizens United.