The Drugstore Cowboy star candidly discusses the characters who defined her career.

The backstory of “The Duke in His Domain,” Truman Capote’s 1957 New Yorker profile of Marlon Brando.

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

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

Conspiracy theories, utopian fantasies, and cult involvement surrounding the international standard of musical tuning.

How Georgia halted its drug epidemic, but not its addicts–and what the U.S. might learn from their efforts.

Reporting on drug-resistant tuberculosis across Papua New Guinea – and then contracting the disease.

He outsold Elvis, signed one of the first pay-for-play contracts and befriended Martin Luther King Jr. A profile of Harry Belafonte.

Searching for the real reason why a bunch of kids partying at the empty home of an NFL player became a national story.

Sixty years later, a dishonorably discharged World War I veteran makes one final appeal. The 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

On the foreign workers of Dubai, who now make up 90 percent of the city’s population.

Stuck between the Taliban and the U.S. Military, Afghanistan’s farmers risk their lives both when they grow, and when they refuse to grow, fields of poppies.

One part rapist, one part con-man; the story of the seemingly unconvictable Hy Doan.

The story of dog-scent lineup innovator Keith Pikett and the not-so-scientific science behind forensics.

The author gets a security guard job at this aging textile factory. Part of the City by City project.

Five prostitutes disappear. Bodies turn up on a Long Island beach. On the women lost, and the families left behind.

After the United States demanded the extradition of a drug lord, a bloodletting ensued.

An interview with the former president about the upcoming election and American consensus.

On the Balkan musical genre Turbo-Folk, its ties to Serbian ultranationalism, and the strongman nightclub owner who brought it to Croatia.

A profile of the Bronx immigrant family on the other end of your Chinese takeout menu.

On spending six months on the southern coast of Argentina with the “Jane Goodall of penguins” and several hundred of her research subjects.

On Norman Bel Geddes, pioneer of miniatures and maker of the “most iconic World’s Fair exhibit of all time.”

The story of Trina Garnett, “one of approximately 470 prisoners in Pennsylvania serving life without parole for crimes they committed as teenagers.”

A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.