The life and mysterious death of dissident Bulgarian writer and radio journalist Georgi Markov.

How the Ebola virus works.

A trip to The Villages, a booming retiremement community outside Orlando, where the golf is free, casual sex is everywhere, and there is no cemetery.

The story of one of the 74,000 children who come to this country each year alone and undocumented.

Inside the stronghold of Commander Pigeon, “collector of lost and exiled men.”

How Curtis Duffy overcame his parents’ murder-suicide to become one of the nation’s great chefs.

The murder of an Olympic champion and the autopsy that shook a city.

Memories of living with the writer Andrew Lytle late in his life.

On working in a war zone to pay the bills.

A conversation on the “bedeviling sorts of indeterminacies one encounters the deeper one drills.”

The next generation of America’s most controversial (and likely most despised) church.

A profile of Beck on the eve of his new album and nearly 20 years after the release of “Loser.”

Thirty-one years ago, Joy Hunley’s daughter was adopted. At least that’s what the paperwork says.

Tales of mayhem on the set of The Canyons.

The 22-year-old rapper on escaping North Long Beach and his desire to be a “regular” guy.

Joanne the Scammer has celebrity fans and a massive YouTube following. Branden Miller barely leaves his Daytona Beach apartment.

On the journey of 24-year-old Jose Fernandez, the Cuban defector turned Major League all-star, who died Sunday.

A long stroll through a Staten Island cemetery leads to the story of the 19th-century free-black oystermen who settled Sandy Ground.

On the shootings, and the response, in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, and Dallas this summer.

Forty years after the dirty wars and Pinochet’s coup, photographer David Burnett journeys back to Chile to visit the subject of his most famous image.

The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.

The conspiracy theories surrounding the 1931 death of Hitler’s niece and object of affection.

In 1902, a poet attempts to stage the world’s first “perfume concert.”