Longform

On tour with America’s first 50-year-old rock band.

The cold, forgotten realities of “conventional warfare.”

How we try - and usually fail - to fight the mosquito.

Growing up on B-movies.

A history of the fowl.

As Playboy magazine moves to Los Angeles, the writer considers its place in the Midwest.

No other general interest magazine tried to reach readers in the wide swathe of land between New York and California. “It was a Midwestern magazine, designed for people there. If you wanted it to be hip, edgy, go toe-to-toe with GQ, you were making a mistake,” said Chris Napolitano, a former executive editor who began at Playboy in 1988.

On the ouster of CEO Janet Robinson and the company’s financial woes.

On the enduring political influence and entrenched racism of the Greek system at the University of Alabama.

The political fight over a new football stadium in Minnesota.

The story behind “the best brisket you’ll ever eat.”

The anatomy of a sex abuse scandal at a Christian school in Oklahoma.

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?”