Fiction Pick of the Week: "Out There"
A woman suspects her new boyfriend is less than human.
The New Yorker
Living Proof
Is the oldest person who ever lived a fraud?
The Woman Shaking Up The Diamond Industry
Eira Thomas’s company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "You Will Never Be Forgotten"
Surviving sexual assault in a rapidly digitized world.
Indefensible
The fight to save an innocent refugee from almost certain death.
Tabula Rasa
On the old-man project.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Only Orange"
Grown siblings, relationships, and ways of seeing.
My Terezín Diary
On what is recorded and what is left out.
Devil's Advocate
On lawyer Alan Dershowitz.
Guantánamo's Darkest Secret
The U.S. military prison’s leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. But his guard suspected otherwise.
Stop, Thief
Did Uber steal Google’s intellectual property?
A New Citizen Decides to Leave the Tumult of Trump's America
On returning to Britain, which is no longer home.
Looking for Life on a Flat Earth
What a burgeoning movement says about science, solace, and how a theory becomes truth.
Trump's Miss Universe Gambit
The connections he made at a 2013 pageant in Russia may have helped give him the Presidency.
Is There a Smarter Way to Think About Sexual Assault on Campus?
A team of researchers at Columbia believe that small changes to college life could make campuses safer.
What Does It Mean to Die?
A 13-year-old girl was declared brain-dead, but her family disagreed. Her case challenges the very nature of existence.
How the U.S. Is Making the War in Yemen Worse
Why are we still involved?
Estonia, the Digital Republic
Tech takes over the post-Soviet nation.
The Numbers King
The billionaire founder of Renaissance Technologies turns to science.
Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies
The film executive hired private investigators, including ex-Mossad agents, to track actresses and journalists.
Is Health Care A Right?
A search for common ground.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Dogs Go Wolf"
Under mysterious circumstances, two sisters are abandoned on an island.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Most Die Young"
A search for meaning through academics, cultural studies, and terrorism.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Peacetime"
An Iraq War veteran, now a paramedic, runs into trouble.
"I rewarded the man with another hit of naloxone, which made him even more alive, even less happy. Karen was busy with the gear, and I thought for sure that the coast was clear. It wasn’t. As soon as I put the note in my pocket, I saw the boy. He stood in the doorway, watching me with a basically impassive expression. He chewed his gum. He blew a splendid bubble."
Savage Breast
Strange beasts reenact scenes and memories from a woman's childhood.
"In the kitchen, the beast was pushing onions around in a pan. It glanced up, not minding me at all. I could hear a rustling sound just around the corner, where our kitchen table used to be, like the sound of my sister doing her homework or cutting pictures out of magazines. There was a small beast doing exactly that, holding a pair of red plastic scissors, snipping out pictures of animals. She was arranging the cutouts on the table: a cow, a giraffe, two dogs, and a bear."
