The physical rigors of pregnancy tangle with the personal ambitions of a war photojournalist, without limiting her in the least.

Notes from a never-finished biography of the neurologist, humanist and writer.

A Native American family’s fight for housing security in the city and on the reservation.

How the 9.9 percent became “the principal accomplices in a process that is slowly strangling the economy, destabilizing American politics, and eroding democracy.”

The bizarre corruption scandal at Bilfinger International.

The death of a submissive man-pup and the scrotal silicone injection that killed him.

“You are not your job.” The former staff writer finds a newfound joy in his restaurant career.

Inside a literary Ponzi scheme.

Stories of African Americans playing in a city that has struggled with racism

Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a 14-year-old girl.

Here’s how a tiny brush fire became California’s deadliest wildfire.

A device connected to my heart could save my life. It could also be hacked.

The post–civil war boom in shark fishing that saved Congolese fishermen and their families is now drying up.

Finding peace and quiet in the high Canadian Arctic.

Previously: The Longform Guide to Silence.

Tyson on his childhood in Brooklyn and the man who changed his life. An excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Undisputed Truth.

The creators of some of the most distinctive craft beers in the world are identical twins from Denmark. They also can’t stand each other.

Previously: Jonah Weiner on the Longform Podcast.

A technical, thrilling account of how Pinboard, a tiny bookmarking service, dealt with the fire hose of new users after news leaked that Yahoo would discontinue Pinboard’s massive rival, Delicious.

In 1979, a Pulitzer was given to “an unnamed photographer of United Press International” who documented a mass execution in Iran.

His name is Jahangir Razmi – and, nearly three decades later, he wants the credit.

An interview with Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich on his career afterlife as a “a clocker and chart-caller” and occasional breeder at an Iowa race horse track.

A father’s attempt to combat the wage gap.

Audrey Elrod thought she had found the man of her dreams. Today she is in a West Virginia prison. She’s broke. And the court has ordered her to pay more than $400,000 to victims of the same man who conned her.

They were an ordinary pair of small-time criminals in the UK. Then they figured out how to blow up an ATM.

Twelve columns about the boxer’s descent, originally published in the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times.

The question for researchers isn’t “How smart are dolphins?” It’s “How are dolphins smart?”