A profile of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who has spent her career uncovering a hidden global market in human flesh.

In the Swiss town of Meiringen, where an obsessed group of ‘pilgrims’ painstakingly recreate the death of Sherlock Holmes.

In 1968, the author revisits remote British Columbia, which he traveled two years earlier.

Is Bryan Saunders a drug-inspired outsider genius, or just in need of intervention?

On the actors who unwittingly starred in The Innocence of Muslims.

An internet pioneer loses hope in the promise of web culture.

Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.

On Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, its uncanny knack for reflecting changes in Russian politics and culture, and the recent acid attack on its artistic director.

A profile of the deadliest sniper in American history, who was murdered last month by a fellow soldier.

A battle against an invasive breed of ants has begun in Texas. It also might be over already.

Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?

How a once-lauded psychiatrist became a prolific prescriber of painkillers in one of Virginia’s poorest and most isolated counties.

“I guess what you post on Facebook matters.” An 18-year-old faces 10 years in jail for a sarcastic threat on Facebook.

In Hollywood’s new blockbuster economy, the actors who portray superheroes are as interchangeable as the costumes they wear.

On the post-prison lives of several men in West Baltimore.

A profile of 21-year-old Dan Cates, who made $5.5 million playing 145,215 hands in 2010.

An investigation into the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in Alaska Native villages.

On 20-somethings in America, or:

My screwed, coddled, self-absorbed, mocked, surprisingly resilient generation.

On H.H. Holmes “an old hand at corpse manipulation and insurance fraud,” who built a house of death in 1890s Chicago.

Pavel Galitsky, 100 years old, blogger and Skyper, survivor of 15 years in Stalin’s Siberian Kolyma mines.

On Manoj Bhargava, who says he’s “probably the wealthiest Indian in America,” and his ubiquitous product.

“In the very near future, the act of remembering will become a choice.”

A chronicle of the 2010 wildfire that burned down 169 homes in Colorado, told via the people who lived through it.

How group of misfits in Texas including Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings snubbed Nashville and brought the hippies and rednecks together. An oral history of outlaw country.

Scientists quarrel about the fate of animals living in the 1,600 square mile exclusion zone.