Fighting the romanticism of owning a home in one of the nation’s most competitive housing markets.

The constant discomfort of a genital injury creates a covenant of pain. It is impossible to think about anything else.

Mardi Fuller grew up in a world of swimming lessons and swim teams because of a mysterious death that haunted her family’s past.

How Chicago is key to a business moving tons of drugs for billions of dollars.

A profile of the world’s top photo retoucher, who typically can retouch over 100 images in a single issue of Vogue.

How Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction, all nine-sixteenths of a second of it, changed TV, the internet, and American culture.

Katharine Hayhoe is one of the country’s most influential atmospheric scientists, spreading the word about the effects of climate change. She’s also an evangelical Christian.

The hard luck stories of Trump fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa, including that of a man who legally changed his name to Donald Trump Jr.

The story of a pair of murdered whooping cranes and just how difficult it is to save a endangered species.

How an obsessive New Age hustler brought the sound of the ocean to millions of home stereos.

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

All of the books about all of the David Bowies:

There are more and more books like this these days: rock histories and encyclopedias, stuffed with information, compendiums of every last detail from this or that year, era, genre, artist – time pinned down, with absolutely no anxiety of influence. And while it would be churlish to deny there is often a huge amount of valuable stuff in them, I do think we need to question how seriously we want to take certain lives and kinds of art – and how we take them seriously without self-referencing the life out of them, without deadening the very things that constitute their once bright, now frazzled eros and ethos.

The brilliant, tragic life of Hall of Fame second baseman Johnny Evers.

In 2003, a platoon of American soldiers opened fire on a family in a Baghdad intersection. A decade later, one of the shooters tracks down the survivors.

The economics of Woonsocket, where one-third of residents rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

An oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker, as poker went mainstream in America and online players invaded the competition.

The story of Melissa Barthelemy, a prostitute killed in a string of murders on Long Island in December 2010.

A profile of Nora Sandigo, guardian to hundreds of kids born in America to illegal immigrants.

A turn in the orgy dome, half a hit of German-engineered acid and more adventures on the Playa.

Elias Pompa is the lone deputy in one of the poorest counties in Texas. He is also at the center of the U.S. border crisis.

The central witness in “one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history” speaks out.

A profile of the world’s best League of Legends player, a 19-year-old Korean kid whose nickname is God.

The story of a lawyer-turned-money launderer, stolen evidence, and a bunch of comics selling at outrageously high prices at auction. And Mussolini.

On a local talk show, Ted Bundy’s mother speaks to the family of one of his victims.

Inside the paranoid world of Nike headquarters, where people are worried that Adidas might finally be capable of taking over the sneaker industry.