A romance author accused her husband of poisoning her. Was it her wildest fiction yet?

Online startups can send you pills to cure anxiety. But is it safe to buy them?

Who was in a cult. Who lost his yacht. Who did not stab a man in the eye.

During the pandemic, people from the author’s hometown got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement.

She believed she had survived the worst time of her life. But there was more to come.

A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next.

“You know, you’re a nasty guy,” he said. “You’re really a nasty guy.”

Throughout their troubled lives, identical twins William and Chris Cormier shared a preternatural bond. Then the body of a Florida journalist ended up in their backyard.

“The whole thing has a sort of Taylor Swift-meets-jihad feel.”

On being among giant reptiles with a parent you don’t understand.

On stolen bicycles, “a solvent in America’s underground economy, a currency in the world of drug addicts and petty thieves.”

The story of Lisa S. Davis and Lisa S. Davis.

The true story of M Company: from Fort Dix to Vietnam in 50 days.

Orthopedic surgery would have bankrupted us in the United States. So we went to Mexico instead.

On generosity, selfishness, and organ donation.

In her pandemic summer, a college student retreated to a cabin on an island, and a job on a lobster boat.

The author and his daughter make a pilgrimage to witness greatness.

A celebrated Uyghur writer gives a first-person account of the genocide in Xinjiang.

Inside the stronghold of Commander Pigeon, “collector of lost and exiled men.”

A bus tour through Israel with a conservative radio host and 450 of his biggest fans.

An excerpt from a new oral history of MTV.

The author was living in a friend’s basement after a bad breakup, unable to eat. Then he had lunch with Jacques Pépin.

A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.

Scot Peterson was a beloved school resource officer in Parkland, Fla. Then a gunman opened fire and he stayed outside.

Cycling through relapse and recovery, and the industry that enables both.