A week in the author’s life when it became impossible to control the course of events.

Is Bryan Saunders a drug-inspired outsider genius, or just in need of intervention?

An investigation into the death of a sacred white buffalo and the man who raised it.

A history of the Hollywood publicity racket.

On Lucille Miller, who in San Bernadino in 1964 was convicted of burning her husband to death in his Volkswagen.

Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.

A profile of the deadliest sniper in American history, who was murdered last month by a fellow soldier.

Shulamith Firestone, one of the first radical feminists, helped to create a new society. But she couldn’t live in it.

The outing of a failed writer who spent years anonymously grinding axes on Wikipedia.

The quiet life of Brigette Höss, 80, whose father ran Auschwitz.

The case of a teenager who didn’t kill his classmates—but talked about it.

How the ski town of the super-rich is responding to global warming.

On the post-prison lives of several men in West Baltimore.

A profile of Maine’s two U.S. senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.

“Is he Socrates or Mengele?” On the late Jack Kevorkian.

On H.H. Holmes “an old hand at corpse manipulation and insurance fraud,” who built a house of death in 1890s Chicago.

Steven Donziger, an American lawyer, headed up a successful lawsuit against Chevron on behalf of Ecuadorans. Then the legal tables turned on him.

Virginia authorities possess DNA evidence that may exonerate dozens of  convicted men. Why won’t the state say who they are?

Scientists quarrel about the fate of animals living in the 1,600 square mile exclusion zone.

How one company is rethinking the business of sex toys.

The challenge of finding answers about some abandoned cremains.

The story of a transplant from a 26-year-old bike mechanic to a 41-year-old fireman with severe burns.

Rabbi Barry Freundel said he would help dozens of women convert to Judaism. In the process, he secretly videotaped them naked.

In an era when America’s great sportswriters were as big as the athletes they covered, W.C. Heinz may have been the best of the bunch.

After 13 years of war, the United States has helped create a nation ruled by drug lords.