The coldest of cases: During 1884-85, seven women and one man were brutally murdered in Austin, Texas.

A prescient take on what the US invasion of Iraq would mean for both countries.

An interview with the author.

"We live in a frightened time and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions. That is one of the great damaging aspects of what has happened in the last 20 years. Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.' I am a writer. I write books."

A profile of fashion designer Roberto Cavalli.

It’s 11 a.m. Cavalli has just risen from his wolf-fur-covered bed and said good morning to Boy, his tiger-striped Bengal cat, and Gino, his miniature monkey. At a breakfast table covered with a cloth of one of his swirling bird patterns, on which are placed four packs of cigarettes and two cigars, Cavalli sinks down on a leopard-print cushion. While he eats applesauce and drinks orange juice from Cavalli tableware, he is surrounded by his four parrots and three beautiful publicists. “Give me some bad questions,” he tells me, lighting a cigar. “I will try to be nice.”

An investigation into the events surrounding Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s May 2011 arrest for sexual assault.

Why Whitney is Lucy, only less lovable:

This may sound like blasphemy to anyone who loves Lucille Ball, the woman who pioneered the classic joke rhythms that Whitney Cummings so klutzily mimics. Cummings has none of Ball’s shining charisma or her buzz of anarchy. Yet she does share Lucy’s rictus grin, her toddler-like foot-stamping tantrums, and especially her Hobbesian view of heterosexual relationships as a combat zone of pranks, bets, and manipulation from below. “This is war,” Whitney announces, before declaring yet another crazy scheme to undercut her boyfriend, and it might as well be the series’ catchphrase.

A log of the 32 shitless hours that the author spent in the Tombs prison after being arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest.

A portrait of three high school kids in Arizona forced to live on their own after SB 1070.

Alarmingly sophisticated imitations of American currency have turned up all over the world and the false-paper trail leads to North Korea.

On “If You Are the One”, the smash hit Chinese dating show that raised the ire of censors.

A Houston man allegedly tries to hire several hit men to kill his wife. Each fails miserably. It becomes the talk of the town.

Why “Father of Botox” Arnold Klein, whose famous clients once included Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor, thinks everyone’s out to get him.

An essay on “how we ignore the long-term effects of violence on children, adults and our communities.”

A Supreme Court Justice revisits a rape trial from the 1950s.

The anatomy of a sex abuse scandal at a Christian school in Oklahoma.

The murderous tale of Washington D.C. fabulist Albrecht Muth and his late wife Viola Drath.

“Calça de veludo ou bunda de fora.” Why Neymar, one of the world’s best talents hasn’t taken the money and run.

A profile of Eugene Kaspersky, KGB-trained online security mogul.

On the legal history of LSD in America and a researcher who never gave up on the drug’s promise.

The story of Brownie Wise, the woman who made Tupperware a household name.

Ripping out the guts of an “utterly preposterous document”: the Starr Report on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Key and Peele try to make comedic sense of America’s confusions about race. Their secret? “Really, there’s no actual strategy.”

A friendship born of mutual interest in birding stretches across the Berlin Wall.

The story of a young man, a lake with some fish, a compound bow and a very bad idea.

“I laugh off 90 percent of the stuff I’m sent,” Wu says. “But it’s the 10 percent.”