Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his debut thriller, The Woman in the Window. His life contains even stranger twists.

Is it time to end the mourning period for old media?

Adventures with a group of young Hasidic men looking for God in psychedelic drugs.

A profile of photographer Robert Frank in his 90th year.

A night of terror in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

An interview with the literary agent about the state of the book industry and how, at least for him, it continues to be quite lucrative.

Kate del Castillo, the actress who brought Sean Penn to Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, tells her side of the story.

John Demjanjuk has had a huge year. Twenty years after being sentenced to die, he finally climbed to the pinnacle of the Wiesenthal Center's list of Nazi war criminals this April, shortly after the Germans filed the arrest warrant that allowed the OSI to put him on the jet to Munich.

Treasure hunters still scour Lower Silesia in search of legendary wartime riches.

On water scarcity in Mexico City.

Six months of life and death in America.

When she was a 15-year-old runaway, the writer was nearly killed by a truck driver. Twenty-seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.

Li Dao, a young Minnesota nurse, appeared in suicide chat rooms, contacted the most desperate, and made pacts to die with them via webcam. After some in the forum caught on, Dao disappeared; or rather, Dao had never existed at all. She was a middle-aged man. And he may have encouraged and witnessed dozens of live suicides.

The developer responsible for the tallest residential building in New York—the penthouse just sold for $90 million—lives in a two-story house in Queens.

Driving cross-country in a chemical tanker.

The DEA warns that drugs are funding terror. But is the agency stopping threats or staging them?

History’s largest mining operation is about to begin. It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.

When the most famous amnesiac in history died, the battle for custody of his brain began.

There is someone whose job it is to try to extract royalty money from anyone who plays music in a place of business. Most people do not react well to this request.

The Obama administration was supposed to fight corporate concentration. In the airline industry, at least, it didn’t work out that way.

In many homicides, police believe they know the killer’s identity but can’t get a witness to cooperate.

Navigating the sewers of London and summiting the peaks of Paris with a group of urban explorers.

Irina Pavolva is trying to steer the Brooklyn Nets through a rough patch. Will she make it?

“The first thing I always notice… is that I’m not alone.”

It involves a former 1960s bondage film actress, a Jewish neo-Nazi, the husband of the speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and a whole lot of creative marketing.