The author was living in a friend’s basement after a bad breakup, unable to eat. Then he had lunch with Jacques Pépin.

What it’s like to be a first responder amid the rise of synthetic marijuana.

Meet Ben Discoe, a programmer who did it from October 2011 to November 2012.

She was an overnight YouTube success. Then she tried to make a TV show.

A reporter lounges at the exclusive club for months to study the beautiful people sipping rosé poolside—and whether they’re actually doing any work.

The former governor of Massachusetts wants to remove the stigma from electric shock treatments. They saved Kitty’s life.

He had the mind of a scholar, but he always insisted he didn’t want to be one.

The history of canis lupus in America, up to the present day.

The disgraced former FIFA president tries to defend himself while eating boiled beef.

The story of Jeffrey Fowle, an Ohio man who tried to smuggle a Bible into North Korea.

Phil Kennedy set out to build the ultimate brain-computer interface. In the process, he almost lost his mind.

The EPA called it the most severe exposure to a hazardous material in American history. The only people in Libby, Montana, who didn’t see it coming were the victims.

How Atlanta-born Davido, the son of a wealthy Nigerian businessman, hopes to break the international market with his brand of Nigerian pop.

Telephone poles began to appear around the same time that white Americans started lynching black Americans.

How a 63-year-old country singer went from a Nashville homeless shelter to #1 on the Swedish charts in under a year.

As a child, Hugo Lucitante was brought to America from a tiny jungle village in Ecuador. His heart’s still back home.

An ode to Juiceboxxx, a 27-year-old rapper from Milwaukee no one’s ever heard of.

A man’s love of pigeons leads him to build a Ponzi scheme out of birds.

Joseph Mitchell used composites in his non-fiction, invented characters and added flourishes to his facts. Does it matter?

Kidnappers in Mexico have changed their business model from retail to wholesale—instead of extorting a handful of rich families, they are targeting thousands of undocumented migrants.

The last all-male clubs in Britain are contemplating admitting women. But a significant proportion of their members still want to preserve the spaces as male-only.

How an eccentric industrialist bought Atlantic City’s shuttered Revel casino at a firesale price with a goal to turn it into a “life-extension facility.”

A gender studies professor, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, decides to take control of her death.

Worried about being kidnapped while on a business trip? A man in Florida teaches courses on how to avoid it.

One man’s quest to witness the “Bison Cull” in Yellowstone National Park.