Fast cars and bad decisions in a race through Southern Europe known as the “Gumball 3000.”

“In 1981, with a computer built into my shoe, I walked into a Las Vegas casino and beat the house.”

An animal's corpse disrupts a humdrum workday in this early story by Eleanor Catton, the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize.

A profile of former Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice, who was fired in April after a video of him berating players went viral.

An interview with a Mexican-born American attorney who defended and eventually smuggled for the cartels in the ’90s.

How the Syrian president stays in power.

A triple homicide, the alleged involvement of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, and those caught up in the FBI’s ongoing investigation.

The author gets a crash course in health care pricing after having his urethra fixed.

The author goes in search of his father’s days as a member of an elite club of sport parachutists.

A review/interview/profile:

Let's settle on the bald facts: Eminem has secured his place in the rap pantheon.

A profile of Steve Carell, whose last appearance as Michael Scott in The Office airs tonight.

How slot machines snuck into the mall, along with money laundering, bribery, shootouts, and billions in profits.

Nearly 10,000,000 men were killed in the conflict, 65 million participated, and now we are left with two.

The life history of an unassuming Sudanese man, Noor Uthman Muhammed, who has spent the last nine years in Guantánamo Bay prison.

Beyond the fact that he lacked a pulse, little is known about the man found on an Adelaide beach in 1948.

The death of the journalist who exposed dark secrets about Islamic extremism in Pakistan’s military.

On Gabo and his complicated role in the country of his birth, Colombia.

An immigrant from Lebanon, a hair-cutting fortune, and the dream of building a castle on an island in British Columbia.

Eighty percent of North American teenagers are in the care of an orthodontist. On our obsession with perfect teeth.

When all else failed, he commandeered a bus, and saved his neighbors. Now he’s in prison.

The poet died when he was hit by a car in 1965. Everything else about his demise is a mystery.

The life of Phyllis Frye, a pioneer in the fight for transgender rights.

The story of a sudden death amid a high school recruiting scandal in Texas.

A former prostitute turned arctivist and her taxi-driver husband go undercover in Iraq’s brothels.

In a remote corner of Romania, neighbors kill each other over tiny strips of land.