An eccentric monk’s singular scrap cathedral reveals the chaos and genius of his mind.

The Haqqani family, an organized crime militia dubbed the “Sopranos of the Afghanistan war,” will almost surely outlast the U.S. occupation and thus seize tremendous power after the U.S. exits.

A profile of 22-year-old hacker George Hotz, who in 2007 became the first person to successfully unlock the iPhone. A few years later, he became the first person to successfully hack the Playstation 3. And, shortly thereafter, he became the first person to get sued by Sony for it.

More migrants than ever are crossing the Colombia-Panama border to reach the U.S. Five days inside the Darién Gap, one of the most dangerous journeys in the world.

The rapper who never grew up.

How and why did 200 pages of the Aleppo Codex, “the oldest, most complete, most accurate text of the Hebrew Bible,” go missing?

The where-are-they-now stories of MC Ren, DJ Scatch, Sir Jinx, Kid Disaster, Candyman, and everyone else on the cover of 1987’s N.W.A. and the Posse.

On his 80th birthday; how Archie Leach, “the Bristol-born son of a part-Jewish suit presser,” became the greatest leading man of his generation.

The life of Adolf Tolkachev, Soviet dissident and CIA spy.

After a non-profit’s documentary about a central African despot became the most viral video of all time, the founder had a nude nervous breakdown on the streets of San Diego. Now he’s back.

Welcome to Coffeyville, Kansas, where the judge has no law degree, debt collectors get a cut of the bail, and Americans are watching their lives — and liberty — disappear in the pursuit of medical debt collection.

Obinwanne Okeke was supposed to be a rags-to-riches Nigerian success story, was even featured on the cover of Forbes. Then the feds followed the money.

The postscript of a viral hit.

A profile of the world’s top photo retoucher, who typically can retouch over 100 images in a single issue of Vogue.

The hard luck stories of Trump fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa, including that of a man who legally changed his name to Donald Trump Jr.

The brilliant, tragic life of Hall of Fame second baseman Johnny Evers.

The story of Melissa Barthelemy, a prostitute killed in a string of murders on Long Island in December 2010.

A profile of the hard-living, cop-dodging artist Dash Snow, published two years before his death of an overdose.

A professor of sociology at Columbia reckons with her father’s relationship with Adolf Eichmann.

For decades a group of radical Catholics, many of them nuns, have been keeping up the good fight against nuclear weapons.

The author visits City of Refuge in Pahokee, Florida, a community of more than 100 registered sex offenders.

The complicated case of Brigitte Harris, who, after years of abuse, accidentally killed her father by cutting off his penis.

“Being Justin Bieber means having an endless number of T-shirts to destroy.” A profile of the pop star just after his 18th birthday.

The life of a modern-day indentured servant involves a truck, mountains of debt, and moving goods for America’s biggest retailers.

Booker winner Howard Jacobson on the bumper crop of sex worker memoirs and what they say about our understanding of paid sex.