He outsold Elvis, signed one of the first pay-for-play contracts and befriended Martin Luther King Jr. A profile of Harry Belafonte.

On the business of selling books.

A history of the Hollywood publicity racket.

The impossible task of touring a tractor factory in post-Soviet Belarus.

On the perils and poisons of mining for gold in southeastern Peru.

The perspective-bending art of identical twins Trevor and Ryan Oakes.

The disappearance of a legendary scavenger could have dire consequences for a swelling human population.

India’s greatest terror threat may not be militants slipping across the Pakistani border, but rather the homegrown Maoist rebels who control the villages of the interior.

A trip to interview former South Vietnamese premiere Ky on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the reunification of Vietnam ends with government surveillance, partying, and confusion.

Pat Robertson was 29 years old, possessionless, and living in a Bed-Stuy brownstone when he announced that God had told him to buy a fledgling TV station in Virginia. Here’s what happened next.

The defining, minute-by-minute account of the 2008 attacks in Mumbai.

In nine hours, Guinea-Bissau’s President and military leader were assassinated in separate incidents. Their dealings had turned the country into the runway of choice for drug smugglers and Hezbollah.