Many people dream of building their own home in the country, but one family finds more of a struggle than they bargained for.

An argument for trying.

A history of the New York Times Styles section.

San Francisco’s forgotten serial killer.

On photographer Garry Winogrand and the unedited archive of more than half a million exposures he left behind.

The story of one journalist’s giant salary and why his company could no longer pay it.

“So there we were, two women armed with nothing but master’s degrees and suburban upbringings, pointing our iPhones at a wild animal, trying to figure out what the fuck to do next.”

How do we restore consensus in an age so divorced from fact?

Transgender voice therapy, an airline pilot, and what it means to sound like a woman.

“We take the bus when we can’t afford to do anything but disappear.”

On realizing you’re going to die.

Famous people and the media have always needed each other. It has been a long, mutually beneficial (and mutually profitable) partnership. And it’s over.

The rewards and pitfalls of selling haunted objects.

On self-improvement, New Year’s resolutions, and Sylvia Plath.

Is a well-received work of William Faulkner scholarship a hoax?

Deep inside the world of Cartoon Network’s most popular show.

How do you sell a $3000 vacuum?

An essay on the service economy.

From bombs to a boxer, variations on a name.

How Robert Gottlieb quelled a rebellion and saved The New Yorker.

Note: Elon Green is a contributing editor to Longform.

The economics of freelance journalism in 2013.

On the holy city of Canudos, and other attempts at better living “by the dispossessed and marginalized the world over.”

Richard Gere, AIDS anxiety and the search for the “Original Gerbil.”

Autobiographical cartoonists on truth and lies.

On Enrique of Malacca, “the closest thing there is to a hero in the story of Ferdinand Magellan’s horribly botched attempt to circumnavigate the world.”