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.

The hedge fund manager making a bet that Wall Street can solve the water crisis in the West.

“After 14 years I finally reported him. In the eyes of the law, my biggest mistake was not fearing him more.”

The eccentric inhabitants of the world’s largest rock—Giant Rock, a humongous boulder deep in the Mojave Desert.

The best-selling young novelist lay dead in a trash-strewn cottage on Ireland’s rugged coast for over a week before she was discovered.

The pandemic of violence against women, the threats online, and the harassment on the streets are ongoing. But women’s voices assumed an unprecedented power in 2014.

Squeamish though they might be about God, even the totally irreligious can find some comfort in praying.

Typee, the most popular book Melville published in his lifetime, was his memoir of Polynesia. Most of it was probably made up.

A weekend with the only person on Earth who can survive five venomous snakebites in 48 hours.