His book panned in the New York Times after being misread by the critic, an author responds.

The author interviews her mother about life as a secretary at Playboy in 1960s New York City.

A town ruined by the chemical C8, an ingredient in the making of Teflon.

The photographs that Caesar, a Syrian military photographer, smuggled out of Assad’s death dungeons.

Famous people and the media have always needed each other. It has been a long, mutually beneficial (and mutually profitable) partnership. And it’s over.

The stubborn Senator from Vermont considers a run for the White House.

How an elite anti-narcotics task force became the most brazen drug thieves on the Texas border.

Finding the thread of depression in the personal history of a friend’s suicide.

It’s the “City of the Big Automobile,” raw and beautiful at once.

Tracing the 3,339 miles the Canadian ran in 1980, on one good leg and one prosthetic limb.

The diary of a Scranton, PA National Guardsmen tasked with guarding the highest profile prisoner in U.S history: a surprisingly amiable Saddam Hussein.

The story of Nate Fleming—walk-on point guard at Oklahoma State, fan favorite, golden child—and the 2001 plane crash that took his life.

From the Greeks to George Lucas, 2,200 years of failure.

On the man who has turned the grunt work of packing into a social media phenomenon.

How two high school wrestling teammates ended up on opposites side of the law during Miami’s cocaine wars.

How modern slot machines develop a nearly unbreakable hold on the brain, leading around one in five pathological gamblers to attempt suicide.

Isaiah Wall wants to get his life on track. But first, he’s gotta buy drugs for the police.

Mapping the global spread of antigay ideology.

Flashbacks from the life of Aaron Hernandez from the person who knew him best, his older brother Jonathan.

The story of a school shooting in Townville, S.C. and what happened to the first-graders who saw it all happen.

The Syrian refugee said his name was Paul, and that he was 16 years old. The truth was much more complicated.

An Afghanistan love story.

How a 20-year-old from the land of fake news tricked Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams, and the BBC.

On photographer Garry Winogrand and the unedited archive of more than half a million exposures he left behind.

A love letter and the jacked up emotions of reality TV.