Madewell’s authenticity problem, written by the great-grandson of the company’s founder.

Today’s South Asian Southern chefs stand on the shoulders of the late Raji Jallepalli.

The story of one of the great final acts in sports history.

Reckoning with the American flag.

On the legal quagmire facing the President if Joe Biden wins.

Will the literature of the suburbs be written on TikTok?

On the questions DNA tests answer and the new ones they create.

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”

The rise of the Night Wolves, a Kremlin-backed biker gang, and what it says about the Russian political condition.

The case of Gilberto Valle, “The Cannibal Cop,” and the line between criminal thoughts and action.

The Giants' miraculous 1951 comeback wasn't all that it seemed.

Previously: The Longform Guide to Cheaters.

After the 1919 Black Sox scandal, Ring Lardner, America’s first great sportswriter, walked away from the game.

The story of the 1969 murder spree by Charles Manson and “Family” as told by those close to the case.

Three decades ago, Mohamed Siad Barre, commander of the Supreme Revolutionary Council, head of the politburo of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party and the last ruler of a functional Somali state, built vast concrete buildings all over Mogadishu. The beautiful city on the coast of the Indian Ocean, with its Arabic and Indian architecture, winding alleyways and Italian colonial-era villas, was dominated by these monuments. They were Third World incarnations of Soviet architecture, exuding power, stability and strength. The buildings – like the literacy campaigns, massive public works programmes and a long war against neighbouring Ethiopia in the late 1970s and early 1980s – were supposed to reflect the wisdom and authority of the dictator.

A profile of the eccentric Gene Weingarten, the only person to twice win the Pulitzer for feature writing.

The rise of the long-haul trucker/serial killer, as excerpted from Ginger Strand’s book Killer on the Road.

The controversy surrounding the death of Uche Okafor.

The playground, the Ivy League, the triangle offense,  and how we dreamed up a “black basketball” and “white basketball.”

The longtime editor of the London Review of Books on editing, the “fussed” people on Twitter, and “preferential treament” for women.

Testimonies about the Soviet war in Afghanistan, reported by the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The untold story of the world’s most infamous sex tape, and how the Internet spread it faster than anyone expected.

Inside the twisted, half-conscious world of Jure Robic, the Slovene soldier who might be the world’s best ultra-endurance athlete.

Inside the minds of two people, one with the world’s best memory and one with the world’s worst.

The shooting death of the last wild Passenger Pigeon, atomic energy, mastodon watering holes, and other footnotes in Ohio history.