The Lost Girls
Inside the world of underground sex trafficking in Houston.
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The Bro Code
Booze, sex, and the dark art of dealmaking in China.
Inside the Kremlin’s Hall of Mirrors
Fake news stories. Doctored photographs. Staged TV clips. Armies of paid trolls.
Dab Artists
Inside the world of “Wooks,” the loner-craftsmen behind the coming marijuana-concentrate boom.
This Side of Ultima Thule
A dispatch from the frozen, drunken wasteland of Eastern Siberia.
Russia's Spam King
The unsolved killing of Russia’s most notorious spammer.
Mubarak’s Last Breath
A primer on Egypt’s political landscape.
Letter from Libya: Circle of Fire
On Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, “the permanent revolutionary,” and his son Seif.
The School
First-person accounts from the 2004 siege of a Russian school in Beslan by Chechen terrorists.
A Strangely Funny Russian Genius
“Russian humor is slapstick, only you actually die.”
Ghosts of Iguala
Investigating what Mexico’s government really knows about disappearance of dozens of students.
A Return to the Western Shore
On the Aran islands of Ireland.
The Untouchables
A brazen land grab in Zimbabwe and why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations.
The Ruthlessly Effective Rebranding of Europe’s New Far Right
How populism took a continent.
The Disappeared
The story of September 26, 2014, the day 43 Mexican students went missing.
China's Selfie Obsession
What it means to be beautiful in the most populous country on earth.
Let's Go to Jerusalem for Soup Again
An essay on how we misremember our youth.
On the Nose
Sissel Tolaas is a star in the world of smells. Her methods are not always subtle.
Love Letters From the Battlefield
How words kept the author’s grandparents connected during the Second World War.
Inside the Markle Family Breakdown
On the true backstory of Meghan Markle, a.k.a. the Duchess of Sussex.
State Capture
The corruption investigation that has shaken South Africa, the world’s most unequal country.
Oceans Apart
An archipelago off the African coast and its migration crisis.
India: Intimations of an Ending
The rise of Modi and the Hindu far right.
Knives Outback
A man is presumed murdered. In this town of 12, everyone is a possible suspect.
Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
"If I'm writing about the criminal justice system, I wish I were a lawyer. If I'm writing about psychiatry, I wish I were a psychiatrist. I have often filled out half my application to get a Ph.D in clinical psychology. That is one area where I am constantly on the verge of jumping the fence. But even when I wrote about religion, I thought I wanted to be a priest."
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