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.

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

Survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting, nine months later.

The culture of juicing at the Mr. Olympia competition.

Examining the future of the massive social media site.

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

At the world’s largest gathering of psychics and mediums, two brothers confront a painful secret.

YouTubers Myka and James Stauffer shared every step of their parenting journey. Except the last.

New York’s Pastor Parker and his growing string of Liberty Churches, each of which will “adopt the culture of its neighborhood.”

The inside story of the coup that has brought the world’s most feared terrorist network to the brink of collapse.

How FPAQ, the Canadian group that controls 72 percent of the world’s supply of maple syrup, caused one of the greatest agricultural crimes in history.

After 17 years, the author of the trilogy “His Dark Materials” carries on the story of one of literature’s most indelible heroines.

“Anna looked at the soul of New York and recognized that if you distract people with shiny objects, with large wads of cash, with the indicia of wealth, if you show them the money, they will be virtually unable to see anything else. And the thing was: It was so easy.”

A 12,000-word profile of recently departed Brazilian President Luiz Inácio da Silva, the “most successful politician of his time.”

“I’ve increasingly become aware of how much of my reputation in Taiwan is built on the knowledge of my New York upbringing.”

Considering the screen saver.

Even when napping, the computer seems beset by iterative nightmares of a deadline. The pipes come to represent, rather than imaginarily suspend, the clogging of the task queue when one is away. When the screen has become as dense as Celtic knot-work, the entire image cracks and dissipates, as if burned out from its involute frenzy—before beginning again in the dark.

On collecting books.

I have lived in books, for books, by and with books; in recent years, I have been fortunate enough to be able to live from books. And it was through books that I first realised there were other worlds beyond my own; first imagined what it might be like to be another person; first encountered that deeply intimate bond made when a writer's voice gets inside a reader's head.

Each year, thousands of people pay to play eighteen holes of golf at Angola, “the largest maximum-security prison in the country.”

Behind the tabloid story of the “murder orphan” in Queens.

On the culture of misogyny and abuse at one of the nation’s largest megachurches.

A self-published author of pick-up guides visits the “pacifist nanny state” of Denmark and finds the social safety interferes with his seduction strategies.