A breakdown of the early 80s homeless epidemic.

Inside the Shel Silverstein archive.

One of the things you learn is that “polymath” doesn’t even begin to describe Silverstein. His creativity extended in so many directions that his archivists must be versed not just in turn-of-the-century world children’s literature, but Waylon Jennings’s deep cuts; not just in reel-to-reel tape preservation, but how to keep an old restaurant napkin scribbled with lyrics from falling apart.

Joining the water company’s “flushermen” to tour London’s sewers.

A profile of 6’8”, 430-pound Brian Shaw.

An exposé of extralegal killing.

The oracular works of Philip K. Dick.

How the hospitality world rents space for physicians to train.

An essay about the weeks after the author’s brother nearly died.

“It was a clusterfuck of clusterfucks.”

On the 13-member rap collective Brockhampton.

As early as 1948, the Oscars sucked.

How a journeyman actor became a star.

What happens when immigrant-rights advocates reach a breaking point?

The first entry in the City by City project, on a Baltimore funeral:

My homeboy is interred at a cemetery with a swan lake where we used to take our girls at night because it was a park with a lake and it was just over the line and in the county.

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.

The Chinese team heads to the home of elite running.

Ben Bradlee’s nagging concerns about Deep Throat.

A previously unpublished, 20,000-word interview with Eno.

Profiles of people with genius-level IQs.

A wide-ranging chat with the magazine editor.

On leaving New York for Portland.

A captured bank robber makes a remarkable claim.

A profile of the country music legend.

How to photograph Los Angeles from a helicopter.

A tour of our greatest conspiracy theories.