The life and death of a gorilla named Julia.

The story behind an online gamer’s suicide.

The effects of legalized prostitution in Germany.

On the ground at the big, sad, strange Burt Reynolds memorabilia auction in Las Vegas.

Inside the men’s rights movement—and the army of misogynists it spawned.

What’s behind the cyclical fashionability of the monstrously ugly Birkenstock?

On the parallel sadness of Thom Gunn and Elizabeth Bishop.

Inside the abusive practices of magazine-subscription sub-contractors.

The life of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, shot dead by the police in Washington state.

A survey of the 20th century’s greatest horror writer’s afterlife of influence.

The case of the murdered real-estate legend and her enraged assistant.

The story of booze and Bangalore.

A profile of the mysterious and moderately intelligent Giant Pacific Octopus.

The rise and fall of The Exile, Russia’s angriest English-language newspaper.

Returning to the scenes of three famous deaths in Seattle.

"And far from the ivory towers of music academia, mostly on his blog, Elgar’s Enigma Theme Unmasked, Bob Padgett has emerged as perhaps the most prolific and dogged of all Enigma seekers. His solution, which has caught the attention of classical music scholars, lies at the bottom of a rabbit hole of anagrams, cryptography, the poet Longfellow, the composer Mendelssohn, the Shroud of Turin, and Jesus, all of which he believes he found hiding in plain sight in the music".

The double life of a KGB spy living in 1980s Manhattan.

Survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting, nine months later.

Watching TV with the President the night before he fired James Comey.

The culture of juicing at the Mr. Olympia competition.

An interview with the mind behind Star Trek.

Examining the future of the massive social media site.

After the relationship ended, the harassment began.

A Marine veteran of the Iraq War on battle and faith.

Marcus Hutchins stopped one of the most dangerous cyberattacks ever. Then the FBI arrested him.